I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
-- Geo. Bernard Shaw
Nigerian junk mail (SCAM)
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Today I received the following email from "Gilbert Brown". Man, these guys are still at it! The wording and needless formality is so laughable. I guess Internet cafes in Nigeria cost next to nothing. These people definitely missed their calling...and judging by the language used it was about two centuries ago. Booyah!
Anyway, he's barking up the wrong ideological tree. I don't give a crap about the United Nations.
BUT it does make for an amusing read. Enjoy (with a spot of tea):
Today I received the following email from "Gilbert Brown". Man, these guys are still at it! The wording and needless formality is so laughable. I guess Internet cafes in Nigeria cost next to nothing. These people definitely missed their calling...and judging by the language used it was about two centuries ago. Booyah!
Anyway, he's barking up the wrong ideological tree. I don't give a crap about the United Nations.
BUT it does make for an amusing read. Enjoy (with a spot of tea):
Sir,
Following the instruction we received from the United nations dept reconciliation board committees, confirming you as the genuine beneficiary of the contract/inheritance and award fund TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED ((Ј2,500,000,00) British pound sterling only.
However, I wish to officially inform you that World Wide Organization Inc London United Kingdom has been officially authorized to deliver your contract/inheritance and award to your doorstep within the next 72 hours from now, so you are advice to contact MR.GILBERT BROWN in London for urgent delivery of your fund and follow the instruction of World Wide Organization to enable you receive your fund consignment without any hitches, we are very sorry for delay this delivery might have cause you.
Note: you are to update United Nations here in London as soon as you receive the above fund, to
enable UN make final endorsements to the office of world bank /UN.Do not fail to contact MR.GILBERT BROWN via his EMAIL:( gilbertbrown5000@yahoo.co.jp ) as soon as you receive this message.
Regards.
Dr.Mrs Joyce Bernard
For: United Nations
World Wide Organization Inc
London-UK
EU anger over NSA shenanigans turning inward
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Yep that pretty much hits the nail on the head.
The USA is a damn police state spying on enemies, countrymen and allies alike. But Americans are either too damn nationalistic (harping on illegal immigration, welfare recipients, Muslims) and/or distracted (celebrity worship and reality TV) to care to notice.
Click on the title or here to read the Washington Post article by Michael Birnbaum in its entirety.
Germans have organized protests at one alleged NSA outpost outside Frankfurt (the main organizer told the Spiegel news magazine that German police officers showed up on his doorstep after he wrote, jokingly, on Facebook about planning a nature walk around the U.S. facility). In Berlin, one person projected a sign that said “United Stasi of America” on the wall of the U.S. Embassy.
Yep that pretty much hits the nail on the head.
The USA is a damn police state spying on enemies, countrymen and allies alike. But Americans are either too damn nationalistic (harping on illegal immigration, welfare recipients, Muslims) and/or distracted (celebrity worship and reality TV) to care to notice.
Click on the title or here to read the Washington Post article by Michael Birnbaum in its entirety.
We Steal Secrets
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Last night I saw the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks.
Since Wikileaks is now a household name there was much I already knew about the organization and the frontman, Julian Assange, and Bradley Manning. BUT there's helluva lot I did not know. Like how crazy Manning was!
It's a complete head-scratcher why the military allowed this little drama fairy to stay in the ranks. BUT THEY DID; and his noted unhinged personality finally unhinged a shitload of diplomatic cables and damning videos into the public domain (some of which, incidentally, was already published; thus his prosecution of sharing classified information is hypocritical. Manning is being persecuted for being the messenger, not the message). The private snapped back as any nerd would: he countered his superiors on his own un-muscular turf. Take that! he seemed to laugh.
Don't misunderstand: the knowledge and images a personnel in his position had to live with deserved to be brought into the light. Turn on the lights, turn out the rats. Torturing and killing people like video game targets is un-American, inhumane, wrong. A wrong deed is not made righteous by virtue of being done by the United States of America.
The interviews given by various persons, including disenchanted former Wikileaks volunteers and the former head of the CIA, make for a well-rounded movie about the genesis of Assange and his hacking prowess...and this business of stealing dark gov't secrets.
Last night I saw the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks.
Since Wikileaks is now a household name there was much I already knew about the organization and the frontman, Julian Assange, and Bradley Manning. BUT there's helluva lot I did not know. Like how crazy Manning was!
It's a complete head-scratcher why the military allowed this little drama fairy to stay in the ranks. BUT THEY DID; and his noted unhinged personality finally unhinged a shitload of diplomatic cables and damning videos into the public domain (some of which, incidentally, was already published; thus his prosecution of sharing classified information is hypocritical. Manning is being persecuted for being the messenger, not the message). The private snapped back as any nerd would: he countered his superiors on his own un-muscular turf. Take that! he seemed to laugh.
A wrong is not made righteous by virtue of being done by the USA
The interviews given by various persons, including disenchanted former Wikileaks volunteers and the former head of the CIA, make for a well-rounded movie about the genesis of Assange and his hacking prowess...and this business of stealing dark gov't secrets.
Donny Long: Tapping asses and taking names
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E.U. doesn't like being bugged by U.S.A.
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The U.S.A. is seeing better prepare for her chickens coming home to roost as the latest diplomatic slight of hand is doing more slighting than amazing. Turns out our de facto fascist gov't is spying on, not only its citizens, but its allies across the Atlantic. And the EU is none too cool about the bugging reports. If the American gov't thought it worthwhile to spy on European allies you can bet your bottom dollar this glamorous imperial sham is invading the privacy of less powerful nations.
Talton from Texas posted the following comment:
The U.S.A. is seeing better prepare for her chickens coming home to roost as the latest diplomatic slight of hand is doing more slighting than amazing. Turns out our de facto fascist gov't is spying on, not only its citizens, but its allies across the Atlantic. And the EU is none too cool about the bugging reports. If the American gov't thought it worthwhile to spy on European allies you can bet your bottom dollar this glamorous imperial sham is invading the privacy of less powerful nations.
Contrary to the bumper sticker, no, shit doesn't just happenI hate to sound like a turn-coat but the shining ideal I was taught in school (which schools don't even bother with anymore) wilts beneath the growing cumulus reality: America is full of shit. The proof is in the pudding. Look at American television, American headlines, U.S. incarceration facts, and Hollywood productions; analyze the laundry list of taxes and fees assessed for air travel, goods and services; and don't dare neglect to look at the loooong 'serving' members of Congress (and your State gov't). Contrary to the bumper sticker, shit doesn't just happen.
Talton from Texas posted the following comment:
When I was young and getting ready to enter the military, my dad to me how proud he was that I was going to serve my country and defend our freedom. He said; this is not NAZI Germany where your required by law to carry your papers. (Today it is against the law as an adult to be in public without photo ID). He said; In America you have freedom of speech, (Today you have to be afraid of offending this ethnic group or that yet, they can say what they like with no consequences) He said; I'd be defending our right to religious freedom, (Today our soldiers can be court martialed for even expressing their religious beliefs.) He told me in America a man can own his firearms without fear from the Government, (Today you won't own them without a back ground check and the government is making every effort to take them from you.) He said; in America the government can not ease drop on your every word like they do in the KGB. (Today the NSA records and catalogs 1.7 billion American conversations a day.) He said; In America we believe in free enterprise and hard work, we don't rob our citizens to support private business. (Today we've had two major government bailouts worth 100s of billions of dollars, awarded to private enterprise and the taxpayer has footed the bill.) We've had Presidents that we not elected by the popular vote, our Congress has taken $2.5 Trillion dollars paid by hard working tax payers to Social Security for their own General Fund that can not be repaid and is mostly unaccounted for.
I truly fear for what the America of tomorrow will look like for our children because for sure the America of today is NOT the America of yesterday.
But, hey, now lesbians can 'marry' each other and kindergardeners can be transgendered. Who needs old-fashioned freedom when you can be progressive instead!
Not a best-selling author but, goddamn, not a Yahoo writer either!
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I may not be a best-selling author - now - or a journalist with binders full of clippings but, at least, I'm not a Yahoo writer!
If you have ever wasted non-refundable time reading a misleading headline that lured you to a shoddy, poorly constructed and severely biased article at the hands of a Yahoo byline, then you know of what I speak.
If you haven't, and feel, oh, experimental, then go browse through Yahoo News - even better, the gay ass sports section - and judge the stories' cohesion as they relate the printed facts and writers' bias. I have found the Comment section the best part of any Yahoo article; not because they are funny and sardonic but, also, more articulate. Unfortunately, merely clicking on the headline equates as a "read" so despite the pronounced fact that most readers reject the articles these hacks stay employed.
On the left side of your screen are a list of my publications. Please consider ordering a book today.
I may not be a best-selling author - now - or a journalist with binders full of clippings but, at least, I'm not a Yahoo writer!
If you have ever wasted non-refundable time reading a misleading headline that lured you to a shoddy, poorly constructed and severely biased article at the hands of a Yahoo byline, then you know of what I speak.
If you haven't, and feel, oh, experimental, then go browse through Yahoo News - even better, the gay ass sports section - and judge the stories' cohesion as they relate the printed facts and writers' bias. I have found the Comment section the best part of any Yahoo article; not because they are funny and sardonic but, also, more articulate. Unfortunately, merely clicking on the headline equates as a "read" so despite the pronounced fact that most readers reject the articles these hacks stay employed.
On the left side of your screen are a list of my publications. Please consider ordering a book today.
Same-sex 'marriage': the reality of the oxymoron
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Now that gay marriage has been decided, here is the case for polygamy: http://t.co/sGfim5WCtZ
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 27, 2013
Fourteen-year old facing jail sentence for pro-NRA shirt?!
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In commenting on a Yahoo! article about the karfluffle of the fourteen-year old student now facing a year in jail for refusing to remove his pro-NRA T-shirt some anonymous "John" took offense to my un-heroic view of police officers as pigs. "John" replied that:
When I worked the streets we used to throw bananas out the window of the car for the "monkeys" in the hood!
To which I, in turn, affirmed:
Which is why I fervently support my right to bear arms! Oink, oink
You see, it is not exclusively the agenda of liberal PCmongers who want to restrict our liberties and enjoyment of life but, perhaps more dogmatically, the national police officers unions who lobby to criminalize everything under the Sun, disenfranchise every group not of their ilk, and pump more funding and citizens-cum-convicts into military industrial complexes known politely as correctional facilities. These are penitentiaries - human warehouses - and there is very little correct about them.
"John" sounds like just the sort of pig who would win favor with Bull Connor. To quote Arthur Conan Doyle: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Dagnammit, where'd I leave my hood?
In commenting on a Yahoo! article about the karfluffle of the fourteen-year old student now facing a year in jail for refusing to remove his pro-NRA T-shirt some anonymous "John" took offense to my un-heroic view of police officers as pigs. "John" replied that:
When I worked the streets we used to throw bananas out the window of the car for the "monkeys" in the hood!
To which I, in turn, affirmed:
Which is why I fervently support my right to bear arms! Oink, oink
You see, it is not exclusively the agenda of liberal PCmongers who want to restrict our liberties and enjoyment of life but, perhaps more dogmatically, the national police officers unions who lobby to criminalize everything under the Sun, disenfranchise every group not of their ilk, and pump more funding and citizens-cum-convicts into military industrial complexes known politely as correctional facilities. These are penitentiaries - human warehouses - and there is very little correct about them.
"John" sounds like just the sort of pig who would win favor with Bull Connor. To quote Arthur Conan Doyle: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Dagnammit, where'd I leave my hood?
Taylor Chapman's Dunkin Donuts rant proves she is a bitch
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This is a cunt. Her name is Taylor Chapman. She is arrogant, boorish, profane, and, like the bulk of people 'growing up' via social media, preposterously petty. She is a 27 year-old college graduate and after you see the recording she proudly made of her behaviour you'll reconsider the touted virtues of higher education and American feminism.
The Smoking Gun reports the Florida woman has since deleted the very Facebook profile she keeps going on about in the 8min video. Well...Taylor Chapman may not be a nice lady but with a mouth like that it ain't hard to see why she's engaged.
Skimpy reports of Malcolm Shabazz's murder
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I was in Mexico when young Malcolm Shabazz was killed. However, I just now heard about it -- three weeks later. This is unbelievable. I flew into Mexico City on May 4th (and then traveled to the west coast) and Shabazz was beaten to death, presumably by extortionist waiters, on the night of May 9th. And this news I only happened to learn via The Christian Science Monitor article about last night's mass kidnappings in Mexico City. Unbelievable!
Yesterday I read about the (white)Arizona mother jailed in Mexico because of marijuana found under her bus seat (yesterday I travelled through Mexico on the bus!) and, before that, the sensational torture and gang-rape of Spanish tourists in Acapulco plus other similar crimes to other similarly pale skinned peoples...but nothing - nothing - about Shabazz. This could be me. Or someone who looks like me. Why does this not surprise me? I'm shocked as all hell but I'm not surprised. As I write, "Mexico kidnapping" is 'trending' on Yahoo.
Why? Because it does not concern black people.
At the risk of sounding selfish, maybe even racist, Ain't this a bitch!
This could be me. Or someone who looks like me
It is very easy for white people to caution, Don't play the race card; Like rich people extolling the virtues of humility and having-not to poor people. The news of Malcolm X's grandson's killing should have blazed across headlines, if only for that weekend. But not a peep did I hear and I'm here in the country, itself. Didn't come across a remark by President Obama in the Associated Press - but I'm convinced he's a lanky phony, anyway - didn't come across a 'trending' ticker-tape, didn't come across a social network meme, and I certainly didn't hear it mentioned by anyone in passing. This could be me. Or someone who looks like me. If I disappoint white friends or fans or casual readers over this, then simply go your way. And don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
Methinks I've had my fill of this country. Pity. I so enjoy Puerto Vallarta. The living is easy, the weather is wonderful and I have several friends here. I have connections here. There's even a burgeoning theatre group I was looking forward to working with next season. But hang it. If Mexico is a corrupt country, then that means it is filled with corrupt peoples who, by no coincidence, guide their actions by corrupt thinking. And as a man habitually thinks, so he behaves.
sitting ducks in a sea of amnesiac eye-witnesses
A nation populated by cowards who only know fear and might means we're all sitting ducks in a sea of amnesiac eye-witnesses. There is absolutely nothing to stop what happens in Mexico City or Sonora or Sinaloa or Oaxaca or Acapulco or Queretero from happening in Vallarta. Nothing. Bet your bottom dollar that when it counts, cowards, those erstwhile smiling neighbors and friends, will see nothing, hear nothing, and sure as hell, will say nothing.
Somebody who looks like me mightn't make the news. But that doesn't save the misfortune from befalling someone who looks like YOU.
I oppose same-sex marriage
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If same-sex marriage is marriageequality,
then a paved road is a solid river
If same-sex marriage is marriage
then a paved road is a solid river
Stop and smell the roses
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Here's what my work desk looks like. My writing space is full of peace and grace. Good lighting, comfortable seating and elbow room, and quiet are the principals that thwart distractions for me. Right now I have a good space: a vase of fresh flowers, indispensable laptop and my trusty journal. I've kept journals and diaries for years. It's a good habit to have. So is stopping to "smell the roses". Every now and again I buy flowers for absolutely no other reason than they are nice. And enjoying nice things makes one's day or outlook that much nicer. As the sales pitch goes, "Say it with flowers!"
Now look closely at the vase. It's a re-usable plastic invention in the shape of a decorative flower holder. It's basically just a plastic bag. So often I had to pass on buying flowers because, as a traveller, I had nothing in which to put them -- until now. So cool. And what's as nice as fresh flowers? Fresh fruit.
Life is to be enjoyed. I looove my life.
fresh flowers..fresh mangoes..and a vase made to-go
Financial myths debunked
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Craving to buy instead of renting? Or think that 401(k) is the golden nugget in your benefits package? Think again, jack! Check out these "financial expert" myths debunked.
Craving to buy instead of renting? Or think that 401(k) is the golden nugget in your benefits package? Think again, jack! Check out these "financial expert" myths debunked.
all that glitters ain't gold
The Great White Hope...is black!
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White sports fans are never short on the lookout for the reverse token player that will 'tilt' the sports (or genre e.g., Vanilla Ice, Marky Mark and Emminem) away from the cool, dominating black player and back to them. In athletic parlance it is known as the Great White Hope. And they have found it -- in Jason Collins.
They thought they had a handle on Cassius Clay (who had the audacity to convert to the Nation of Islam and fail the military draft physical) and Arthur Ashe (the little uppity wimp) and O.J. Simpson (but he sorely 'let them down') and Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods (oh they're still pissed at him). Funny how they never coddled the Williams sisters. Oh well. Now, ladies and gentlemen, as thee gay pro athlete Jason Collins couldn't be any less threatening if he were Steve Nash. Yes, there is that queer Puerto Rican boxer but, well, he just ain't black enough to be considered a "historic homosexual". Hooray-hoorah their progressive poster boy has arrived!
White sports fans are never short on the lookout for the reverse token player that will 'tilt' the sports (or genre e.g., Vanilla Ice, Marky Mark and Emminem) away from the cool, dominating black player and back to them. In athletic parlance it is known as the Great White Hope. And they have found it -- in Jason Collins.
They thought they had a handle on Cassius Clay (who had the audacity to convert to the Nation of Islam and fail the military draft physical) and Arthur Ashe (the little uppity wimp) and O.J. Simpson (but he sorely 'let them down') and Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods (oh they're still pissed at him). Funny how they never coddled the Williams sisters. Oh well. Now, ladies and gentlemen, as thee gay pro athlete Jason Collins couldn't be any less threatening if he were Steve Nash. Yes, there is that queer Puerto Rican boxer but, well, he just ain't black enough to be considered a "historic homosexual". Hooray-hoorah their progressive poster boy has arrived!
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