Lycurgus on modern America

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One of the glaring handicaps with a Republic attests to the old adage of having too many cooks in the kitchen: the soup is spoiled. What starts out all right---proper ingredients, suitable cookery, eagerness to prepare a delicious dish---gets bogged down in minutiae and ego centrism and conflicting loyalties.

A great many folk like to (claim to)wonder what Jesus would do as if 1) they would adhere to what Jesus would do or 2) Jesus would know what to do. In reading some quotations attributed to Lycurgus, Spartan lawgiver, I was stunned by some things that struck close to home.

We proudly tout our democracy and American way of life as a model for the world. In several respects we're right. Many, many people validate this belief by their stalwart and never ceasing immigration and emigration to America. Who in the hell is beating down the door to get into Beirut or Baghdad or Guatemala; or, hell, Finland?? Lycurgus, however, was not sold on democracy nor what we know as capitalism, both of which are married to the American image and spirit.

To the laconic lawgiver, the best way for Spartans to thwart invasion of their homeland was "by remaining poor, and each man not desiring to possess more than his fellow." BLAM! POW! Take that consumerism!

And what about border control and this long ass fence to keep out desperate Mexicans ad hoc genus? What say you, Lycurgus, on homeland security? Well, Lycurgus, would say, "A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick." OOOH SUCK ON THAT!

Too much of a good thing can even be a bad thing and the United States of America may learn, retrospectively, that even the melting pot can hold only so many elements before the soup is spoiled and distasteful.

Birthers is a dumb name for racists

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This is some funny @#%! Birthers, as they've taken to calling themselves, are racists pure and simple. They hate---hate---that Americans elected a black man, also known less complimentary-ly as a darky, spook, coon, nigger, to the highest office in the land over their old white man and his hapless female running-mate. How could this happen in my lifetime, they cry, in my great superpower country?! At any rate, birthers sounds like a name better suited for opponents of test tube babies. They should just go back to calling themselves Klu Klux Klan or, say, poor losers or, better still, undemocratic un-Americans.

Happy 50th Hawaii!!

This marks the 50th Anniversary of the fiftieth state in the Union.
Hawaii was the last territory to become part of America and is the birthplace of our President Obama. What, what, we haven't acquired new territory since the end of WWII??! Whoa, imperialism ain't what it used to be.
Oh well. Happy birthday!

Lucky to be Obama -15 (Hawaii)

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The great state of Hawaii has once again acquiesced to Republican curiosity and hate-mongering rumors and confirmed, unequivocally, the legitimacy of President Obama's American birth. The 44th President of the United States was born in Hawaii in 1961. How sweet it is!

But reality doesn't comfort some GOP nutters. "They just keep asking over and over and over again," Hawaii Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said. These are the same people, after all, who liked the 43d President and his documented incompetence.

For many, the reality of President Obama stings like a mother----! That puts a smile on my face. Here are just a few of the haters. Aloha haters:

Orly "Russian Birther" Taitz -&- Walter Bagdasarian

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Rush "I hope he fails" Limbaugh


Sarah "Clueless" Palin


Lou "???" Dobbs


Ann "Crazy Bitch"Coulter


Mrs Rothschild, aka stupid rich girl


Hillbillies


FOX News


Alan "Blowhard" Keyes

Lawyer's Statement on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The lawyer for Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Charles Ogletree, published this statement on behalf of his client:

This brief statement is being submitted on behalf of my client, friend, and colleague, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This is a statement concerning the arrest of Professor Gates...Professor Gates informed the officer that he lived there and was a faculty member at Harvard University. The officer then asked Professor Gates whether he could prove that he lived there and taught at Harvard. Professor Gates said that he could, and turned to walk into his kitchen, where he had left his wallet. The officer followed him. Professor Gates handed both his Harvard University identification and his valid Massachusetts driver’s license to the officer. Both include Professor Gates’ photograph, and the license includes his address...Professor Gates then asked the police officer if he would give him his name and his badge number. He made this request several times. The officer did not produce any identification nor did he respond to Professor Gates’ request for this information....

Talented Tenth arrested. WWOD?

Of all the black men the pigs might've arrested they picked on THN of Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates---thee Henry Louis Gates---heavily decorated scholar, black history historian, influential intellectual, esteemed academician, Harvard professor in handcuffs after a white woman mistook him for breaking into his own house. Sound familiar? Technically, Mr Gates was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for angrily requesting the officer's name and badge number. Sound familiar?

If this rings foreign to you, then you might be that dumb white bitch who likes to call pigs on black people for made up crimes like, say, breaking into their own homes or walking in the neighborhood or entering a gas station in a group or looking ("stalking") or rape when it was consensual or fabricated rape when there was no contact or car-jacking and killing the babies that were in the back seat or carving words onto white bodies, et cetera.

What do you call a black man with a college degree or riches or successful profession?

Never mind the bogus charges were dropped within a week. One's mind arranges the mosh of things---black man, Harvard professor, arrest---into a sum and invariably thinks, muses, wonders, asks, WWOD (What will Obama do)?

In his identity quest, was the President never verified of his Negro status by a "random" police search? Not even in Chicago?! Hell, even Michael Jackson got the answer to his lyrical query. And I was just stopped and questioned by German politzei at the Berlin train station for absolutely no apparent reason. The officials were very pleasant and professional---the nicest I've ever met, really---but since they had no cause to stop me and since I committed no infraction their interruption of my day remains unfair and, evidently, racially motivated.

We can't give President Obama a pass on this one. As a candidate he was VERY vocal about the lack of federal response devoted to those abandoned to Hurricane Katrina. As the first black president of America he has got to put his foot down on things that matter to us here in America. Because, hey, if civilly dressed, un-thuggish, upstanding, law-abiding black gentleman like Mr Gates or Earl Graves, founder of Black Enterprise magazine, are subjected to racist---at best, moot---search and seizures, then, apparently, the only thing sheltering Mr Obama from bully pigs is the fact that he is the United States President. Note, I said apparently; quote the old riddle: What do you call a black man with a college degree or riches or successful profession?

Booyah!

Eff people who won't hire me

The following is an actual rant published care of Montreal's Rant line. Except for that last bit against capitalism, it's spot-on:

Fuck international tuition fees. Fuck managers who tell you continuously to call back. Fuck people who aren't hiring. Fuck people who won't hire me. Don't tell me to fill out a fucking form if you're not hiring. Don't continuously JERK people around and tell them to come back the next day when you're not even going to be there. And fuck managers who ask me if there's any days that I can't work and then ask me why and proceed to tell me that my reasons aren't valid. And FUCK CAPITALISM. Bye. [BLEEP!] [italics added]

Wrongfully jailed "father"

Did you hear the one about the man who was jailed for not paying child support for someone else's child? Right here in America. Read about it here.

Where's the Federal Reserve's audit?

That's the question---challenge---Ron Paul is advancing to his congressional colleagues and the American people: Audit the Fed!

"I'd like to know everything they're doing.," said the Texas congressman with libertarian views. "We have a right to know what they're doing. They can literally create trillions in guarantees and not report them to us."

Of all the organizations and businesses in the country the Federal Reserve, which is a private company and NOT, as many citizens believe, a government body, is the only outfit immune to an audit. How do they dispense with their money, from where do they get it, where are their accounting books...? We don't know. The U.S. govt does not know.

In forging transparency, the Obama Administration must take the bold move in requiring accountability and transparency from this money organization. These economic times demand it. But long before the U.S. economy made chumps and homeless out of many Americans---and people around the world---our American values of fairness and checks-and-balances required the Federal Reserve stand into the light like every other business.

Woman advised to combat lung illness with sex

An Austrailian woman who developed spores---fungi---growing in her lungs and sinus problems as a result of having worked in a nasty, damp basement was suggested by her employer to seek a bit of the old in-out, in-out to cure what ails her. A medical x-ray indeed shows mould effecting the woman's lungs. Well! Though the treatment isn't covered by any conventional medical plan who's to say some (deep)throat coat wouldn't help the woman?

Oh I'm a cheeky one.

Michael Jackson Memorial Service - July 7 2009

Jackson siblings & John Mayer

Young fans in Romania & a fan at L.A.'s Staple Center

Mickey Rooney & Usher

Because I want to support black business

Am not a big T-shirt guy and even less likely to sport torso bumper stickers---y'know those shirts with ironic or cheeky sayings like "Sexy Grandma" (when worn by some dork who mistakes his penis for an Xbox joystick), "Save Water.Drink Bieer," "Sex Expert. First Lesson FREE," "Bitch"---but I do want to buy a Michael Jackson print.

Problem is I couldn't find a black store owner around Downtown Toronto. The nearby custom T-shirt and skateboard shops, for whom its mainstay customers, disaffected skate punks and hipsters with arrested development, regard irony a RedBull spin-off, have a nice selection of MJ shirts but the staff are all monochromatic white. I don't think so.

This is one of those cases where my dollars will go to a black owned business or I'll just have to make do without a farewell shirt.

My new sexy black laptop

The one high-tech gadget I find it hard to do without is the Internet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, technically the computer is the gadget but you know what I mean. Cellular phones and the whole palm pilot craze do nothing for me but email is super important to me; and, of course, there are my web logs. I always choose youth hostels that offer free Internet (or free breakfast) otherwise it's off to the Internet cafes for me. Satis shilling out coin for that! I finally went out and bought a laptop the other day. Hello wi-fi.

After price-hunting up and down College Street (Toronto) I snapped up one of those new mini models on the market---brand new!! At $270 (+11.5% Canuck tax) I think I got it at a deal. Told myself, Don't spend more than three hundred dollars, and I pretty damn well hit the mark; and it's brand new!!

it's compact, cute and sexy black---just like me. But as an avid traveller I do loves to travel light!

Asus PC900HD. Am a fast typist so the small keyboard will take some getting used to but the small screen is pretty okay...plus it comes with a built-in webcam...ooh la la. Chi-ching. The real kicker for me, though, is its small size. Sure, it's compact, cute and sexy black---just like me---but as an avid traveller/backpacker I love the fact that the doggone thing is no larger or heavier than a philosophy book. I do loves to travel light!

Now I feel like a hip Japanese/Chinese/South Korean traveller. Hehehe

NY official is sick of MJ

This NY politician insists MJ was a "pervert, child molester...pedophile" and is sick of being dying to attend his memorial when they should be dying in Afghanistan like good little heroic sheep instead.

view congressman's video clip

(sorry, subtitles unavailable)

Michael Jackson had civil rights...just like you

I was very impressed by Duane Booth's sobering article on the death of Michael Jackson. With a title like "A most important civil right died with Michael Jackson" it was hard not to look beyond the cover. Click on the excerpt below to read Mr Booth's entire article:

Among the tributes, accolades and genuine love shown for Jackson in memorium, there were choruses of people who absolutely refused to view him as anything but a monster or a freak show. It struck me as terribly sad that at one moment where we mark the start of a civil rights movement and in a year when another such movement marked its most crowning achievement with Barack Obama’s inauguration one of the most fundamental civil rights to which we are all entitled as citizens of democracies has all but vanished [italics added].

Any remaining threads of presumption of innocence died on June 25, 2009 at 2:25 p.m. [italics added]

Many people remarked about how it was inappropriate to mourn a man who “molested children” and destroyed the lives of so many young boys through his predatory ways. The trouble is, never once has it ever been proven that Jackson ever molested a child. Only two 13-year-old boys ever took Jackson to court - once in a civil trial in 1993 and once in a criminal trial a decade later. The civil trial was settled without any finding of wrongdoing and begged the question that if the case not about money, why would it not have been pursued criminally? Simple. Not enough evidence. You don’t have to prove guilt in a civil trial. The parents of the first child were well known to have financial troubles and there was mounting evidence that this lawsuit was nothing more than a way to tap a very naive man who clearly had difficulties functioning as an adult for large sums of money.

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

AE911Truth.org.
Visit the above link to learn how high-rise buildings come collasping down.
Hint: It was an inside job, you dope.

Michael Jackson - 1958-2009

REST IN PEACE

Homosexuality is a nation in Canada

Canada, and maybe it's just another one of those charming Canuck quirks, seems to recognize homosexuality as a State rather than a state of being.

With rainbow banners flapping so promptly alongside province and federal flags you would not be wrong in half expecting the U.N. to soon recognize a delegae from Yoko and John Lennon's Newtopia (see clip below).

Wonder what is keeping those doggone poverty flags on backorder. I know society has a great deal more poor citizens than homosexual ones...and, afterall, poor people are humans too.

Queer Hilton gets his come-uppings

Perez Hilton, that queer gossip horse-fly, was a knocked on his ass by, supposedly, will.i.am. Good. Now if only a similar act of God would manifest itself on that other pink know-it-all big mouth, Merchant Lucas. Lucas, an arrogant Russian Jew, is anti-Muslim and speaks a good game because, afterall, OUR American Constitution permits that luxury.

Merchant Lucas

Project Implicit detects hidden racial biases

According to Harvard University's, the University of Washington's, and the University of Virginia's joint virtual laboratory, Project Implicit, an online test constructed to weed out (hidden) racial prejudices, in sum, blacks were the most likely of all races to show no bias at all.

From a compilation of tests administered from 2000 to 2006, the results revealed that the racial biases generating from black respondents split near evenly for pro-white and pro-black whereas 3/4 of whites were detected with anti-black/pro-white hang-ups. What's more? Little white children as young as six exhibit this implicit "white is right" outlook. Hello!

Check out this stupid white bitch:

Brave new world we've not yet reached

Just finished re-reading one of my favorite books, Brave New World. Aside from the long arm of the pharmacutical industry and the advancement of progressive education, which is disinclined to teach history or fine arts, and the United Nations, no, our future is not akin to the novel's present. We haven't sexophones or a color coded caste system. Instead we've a color coded Homeland Security watch.

O (brave) new world....

Ugly lesbian is the new Cover Girl

Howard Stern must've been too busy broadcasting obsenities via satelite to accept the offer. How else can you rationalize hiring Ellen DeGeneres as the model/face of Cover Girl cosmetics?

is feminine and looks like a beautiful woman as opposed to a wholesome boy

Using Ellen DeGeneres as the covergirl of a leading ladies cosmetics line is the equivalent of employing Mother Teresa as the the face for Planned Parenthood: assbackwards and subversive. Miss DeGeneres is not only a tomboy lesbian, but an ugly one at that. Yet we now see her as the smiling face for female make-up. What the bleep?! It would have made some logical sense to use her vagina buddy, whatshername, to launch the new campaign since the woman, although a lesbian, is feminine and looks like a beautiful woman as opposed to a wholesome boy.

Unless, of course, the campaign is more subversive than beautic: ugly lesbians typifying female beauty; homosexuals, family planning; Wall Street, community activism; loggers, forest preservation; Mexico campaigning for secure borders; the Monkey, compassionate conservatism; Donald Trump advancing volunteerism or Hershey promoting Nestle Quick. Two plus two equal five. Work will make you free.

Okay, I concede. Howard Stern would be slightly less convincing a Cover Girl spokesman than Miss DeGeneres.

Supreme Court rejects homosexual lawsuit to Pentagon policy

The Pentagon enforces the "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy and the United States Supreme Court is sticking to it. Today, the Court rejected a challenge to the policy and the Obama Administration stands by it.

The real thorn in this policy is the second criterion: "don't tell." That's a too hard thing for today's homosexuals to achieve. They simply must tell someone, preferably the world, and, yet, have the hubris to wag the finger at the Pentagon for enforcing what is commnoly known military code. It is not enough to be permitted to serve (don't ask) nor to be left alone to serve (don't pursue). The needy homosexual forgets his soldier's allegiance to duty and cooperation, and the civilian in him gets the upper hand and simply must tell the world he's a friend of Dorothy. So the military dismisses his ass. Duh!

former soldier now cute,full-time sodomist and protester

We're fighting two disastrous and unpopular wars amidst a recession, that is supposedly turning around, not to mention a persistent little bug known as swine flu and all former Army Capt James Pietrangelo II---what pride he does his namesake---and the eleven other veterans can think about is their damn homosexual agenda. If they couldn't stand the heat why in the name of Reason did they enter the kitchen in the first place?

The needy homosexual forgets his soldier's allegiance to duty and cooperation

Contrary to Navy Vice Admiral Shanahan, the Policy isn't lacking in integrity. Soldiers who enter the armed forces knowing full well of their sexual urges, preferences, sexual orientation---and their grasp of said emotions and behaviours---and renege on their promise only to turn around with flaming audacity to challenge the system are the ones that lack integrity. This is a serious matter. If a soldier with homosexual preferences cannot keep his own proclivities under wraps---because he feels "repressed"!---then how much more secure is he to hold top secret information?

Hell, he or she will spill the beans at the first tickle...or crack of the whip.

Love is in the fur

Love, love, love. It's the basis for every fool's argument. "Let us do this because we love each other," "With love what more do we need?" "You can't legislate love!" Wanna bet?

Add to the list of sick fetishers Furries. Furries are people who "identify" with animals, presumably animals with fur, so as not to confuse their perversion with good old fashion bestiality.

What is the world coming to when a man can't make love to his own dog?

Troy Whitson, twenty-one year old Washington state resident, was ratted out by two of his Furry friends---there's a club for everybody!---has been sentenced to 30 days in the slammer for having sexual intercourse with his two dogs. What the #%*!? The malamutes are now in the care of new owners. The same can be said for Mr Whitson whose preference for doggy-style will now, at least, be much appreciated.

What's the world coming to when a man can't make love to his own dog(s)? How do we know his dogs didn't like it? Ho, this is discrimination! Discrimination! Give the freak credit, he wasn't enjoying nasty, demeaning, degnerate, sexist online porn like every other normal twenty-one year old. His was a case of...puppy-love. Hehehe

No bride, no penis

There's cutting off one's nose to spite one's face and then there is this: An Egyptian man whose family refused his choice for a wife did what any spurned lover would do: he lopped off his pecker. Holy %#&! cow!

read all about it

Turns the woman of choice was from a lower class and, understandably, the family didn't want to be in-laws with hill-billys---they're sooo common, y'know---so, to spite his stubborn father, the young man heated up a knife and went to work.

Damn, at least John Wayne Bobbitt was able to have his reattached.

My quirky fear of Obama paraphernalia

I can't bring myself to buy any Obama paraphernalia. I cheered on his campaign; felt victorious by and proud because of his win; was jubilant and choked-up during the inauguration ceremonies. And I LOVE Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama propaganda poster. But there is just something eerily un-American about the ubiquity of a President's image.

Worship me, fear me, love me! the icons implore

Giant images of the ruler everywhere seem just so, so...dictatorial and Third Worldish; and perversely religious. Am reminded of Nicolae Ceausescu, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Che Guevara ad hoc genus. Worship me, fear me, love me! the icons implore. I am your father, your shepherd, your saviour!

And, so, each time am curious to buy a booster button or magnet or cool shirt print or poster I stop and seriously wonder, Damn, what am I buying into? If anything, he, President Obama, is not mandating his image be placed over hearth, blackboard, city square. His likeness is ubiquitous because the consumer market just can't get enough of him. That, and as the leader of the free world he is arguably the most covered man on the planet...and, unlike his predecessor, President Obama is popular and likable. Maybe I'll get over this paraphernalia quirk and eventually purchase a T-shirt or sticker---baby steps, baby steps!---but I'll be a monkey's uncle to buy the Chia Obama.

I've hope in the man but I've seen The Obama Deception and, now, so can you.

California Supreme Court upholds traditional marriage

In April it was up to the citizens of California to stand firm on their understanding of marriage. That's when Proposition 8, the amendment to the State's constitution that spelled out the obvious---marriage is between one man and one woman---was first challenged.

Now, the California Supreme Court, unlike San Francisco's, has ruled in favor of said common sense: Husband and wife. Homosexuals are livid and, as usual, whiny, whimpering and "blogging" about injustice and homophobia, and blah, blah, blah. They weren't dancing in the street this time!

Injustice? Unfairness? Unfair is the glamorous ambushing of marriage in the name of "love," unfair is publicly waging expensive promises because you're not man enough to make an honest woman out of your former mistress, Angelina Jolie, unfair is slandering Miss California Carrie Prejean because she believes in "opposite-sex marriage" (translation: normal marriages), unfair is perpetrating homosexual fantasies about cartoon characters because, well...well that just makes you a sick individual who has a thing for man-boy relationships.

It's not a hard fact of reality to grasp: marriage is between a man and a woman; so if you're a woman who prefers licking vagina (Ellen DeGeneres) then knock yourself out until your jaw locks but, damn, be happy and shut up about it already!

discover the meaning behind this image

Why I stick to letters and emails

Talking online, which is to say, typing, is the most common way to not be yourself nowadays. People have sooooo many "friends" online they don't know what to do with themselves; but they know enough not to meet face-to-face because then the spell is broken.

Dennis Raymond got so incensed when his AOL chat buddy refused to hook-up like normal real people, which is to say, face-to-face versus emoticons (smileys) that he stabbed her dead as she sat in a Bronx park on Tuesday. Oh I remember the weather was nice on Tuesday...perfect for enjoying a day in the park...but I digress. Dennis Raymond---aka Mike to his AOL friends---gives new meaning to reach out and touch someone.

With "friends" like that I'll take a computer virus any day.

And the winner is...who gives a #@*%!

No one I know knows who actually won the beauty pageant which ugly women, feminists, and lesbians---pardon any redundancy---have been lambasting ever since the Feminine Mystique.

Who everyone does recall, however, is Miss California USA---and that's Miss, not Ms---Carrie Prejean, left. Isn't she pleasant? Despite not winning the overall crown Miss California is still in the news because the liberal ambush sprung by homosexual celebrity worshipper Perez Hilton essentially backfired. Instead of crumbling under the "offense" of not supporting same-sex marriage, Miss Prejean stood her ground and stood by her values which in this case meant marriage is off limits to lovers of the same gender. Well!

Many Americans saw through the tacky missive from tacky Perez Hilton---why would they even invite that fruitcake to be a judge??--- to inject homo politics into the pageant. Since the televised stunt, Miss Prejean has smiled and waved her statuesque ass all the way to Washington to bat for traditional marriage. After that, the beauty queen was mocked for having breast implants---hello?---and then came close to losing her state crown when semi-nude photographs of her teenage ages surfaced. The Donald, however, stood up to the liberal bullying by standing by Miss Prejean.

And he should.

The mess that has ensued since then is evident that no matter how nicely or civilly one disagrees with any parts of the homosexual agenda, one is demonized and lampooned for it. Marriage is only between people of opposite sex. I support polygamy but not same-sex "marriage". But that's neither here nor there because I still don't know who won the beauty contest; then again, she's clearly not as exciting as Miss California so who gives a #@*^!

I'm a human being. Goddammit my life has value

It's (un)funny, how we're reliving Atlas Shrugged and 1976. The prophetic monologue comes from the movie Network (1976):

Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's no one anywhere that seems to know what to do with us. Now into it. We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say anything."

Well I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crying in the streets. All I know is first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human being. God Dammit, my life has value."

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" I want you to get up right now. Get up. Go to your windows, open your windows, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Things have got to change my friends. You've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open your window, stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Spinning is no remedy to swine flu

The World Health Organization (WHO) feels the urgent need to protect pigs and, therefore, is now officially referring to the swine flu as H1N1 Influenza A. W.H.O. is not the only source speaking in silly code. President Obama is referring to the spread as a great "concern" but not a panic. Funny, that's how former president Monkey related the recession.

The vaccines exist. Why aren't they being given out?

According to the organization, pigs pose no danger or direct connection with the illness spreading around the globe. Oh? Then why the hell was it termed "swine flu" in the first place AND ground zero traced back to a pig farm outside of Mexico City??

Instead of worrying over the 300,000 pigs slaughtered in Egypt and the many other countries inacting bans on Mexican pork products, the WHO ought to be squashing global anxiety with the administration of swine flu vaccines. The vaccines exist. Why aren't they being given out?

One needn't be a wordsmith to see through the word buggery being employed. Swine flu or H1N1 or whatever they wish to label it is serious, catching and catching beyond the Third World border of Mexico.

Am reminded of Malcolm X's observation on ebbing racism. He said you can't plunge a knife in a man's back nine inches, pull it out three inches and call that progress. The knife is still in the back.

American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said, "[For Vice President Biden]to suggest that people not fly at this stage of things is a broad brush stroke bordering on fear mongering."

Yeah leave that job to the experts at CNN, FOX, MSNBC.

"The facts of the situation at this stage anyway," adds Smith, "certainly don't support that."

Huh?!

Love = licking another woman's vagina

And while the world's immunity is being tested, lesbians are "marrying" each other in Iowa. The Hawkeye state is now more like the hackeye state.

The circus geek: A picture of absurdity.

"No" seems to be a dirty, or at least difficult, word---outside of the D.A.R.E. program. "Just say No" needs to be brought back in vogue. Dust off the '80s cheesiness and encourage its use for what it is: empowerment.

In the Academy Award winning movie, Network, viewers were told to stop what they were doing, stamp down their feet, open the windows and shout "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

viewers would rather cheer on mendacity, mediocrity, stupidity than do something constructive---like, say, masturbate or shuck corn

The fear of saying no is fueled by the fear of being offensive, uncool, being pegged as a hindrance to someone's advancement. How dare you tell me no? comes the rebuttal. You can't judge me, blah, blah, blah.

Look around us. Look at the fools on television. Real people making blatant fools of themselves on camera because 1) they can't act, 2) think very little of preserving self-dignity, 3) their friends and family are awol. These wannabes and reality show celebs, in turn, are bolstered by the mass of viewers who would rather cheer on mendacity, mediocrity, stupidity than do something constructive---like, say, masturbate or shuck corn.

Why wasn't Kyle Maynard given a definitive rejection to his fight petition? So what he's a heart of gold and indomitable spirit, the man is still a congenital amputee---a head atop a muscular torso with four protruding stubs---and, as any reasonable person can see, is therefore unfit to fight in caged mixed martial arts bouts (MMA). But reasonable people are as scarce as are polite people in New York Shitty.

Sports writer Dan Wetzel regarded Maynard's MMA ambition a picture of courage. I call it a picture of absurdity. Circus geek comes to mind. I couldn't even stomach to watch the three minute footage. I would've posted the clip here for your own judgement but it's been removed from the Internet due to some copyright claim.

Swine flu paranoia

When headlines about the swine flu in Mexico City appeared last week I thought it had something to do with the countries dietary staple and dismal hygiene standards. And I was relieved to have left the country the week before. Border crossing has grown yet again more restrictive. What timing!

Now, America and Canada are reporting cases of the virus and am starting to think the timing of all this is a bit queer. Leave it to American news media to hammer home any frightful incident into a pandemic inevitability. The news media perpetuate fear like a domineering lover perpetuates dependence, instilling paranoia via comforting words like "concern," "security," "safeguard," and, quixotically, with expert assurances that we've no need to panic or worry so long as we thoroughly wash our hands. Oh brother!

The common cold does not fall otherwise healthy people in alarming numbers. Swine flu, like SARS and the Black Plague before it, is not a common cold. Still, that such a virus is multiplying---or reportedly multiplying---throughout NAFTA countries out of the clear blue is fantastically thought-provoking.

Leave it to American news media to hammer home any frightful incident into a pandemic inevitability

Nature, unassisted, does not evolve this rapidly. Glaziers move and melt at a slow pace, meteorites like the scale that wiped out dinosaurs are far from routine, tsunamis and earthquakes are not staple features of weather reports. Crippling organisms such as bacteria and viruses require time to adapt and surpass other organisms' immune defenses; a point of fact which swine flu appears to contradict and so, now, trusty CNN has converted their ever featured gloom&doom colored map of the country to highlight swine flu cases instead of home foreclosures.

Earlier today the World Health Organization announced America has forty confirmed cases. From zero to seven to, now, forty confirmed cases. Just like that. In, what, three days?

Read the incoming reports with a clear eye and incredulity and see if a few elements appear amiss.

Obama bounces to Beyonce

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California upholds marriage ban

I was surprised to read the president of the National Hispanic Christain Leadership Conference, Rev Sam Rodriguez, opposes same-sex marriage since so many Hispanics seem to be so blase about homosexuality and are pagan Catholics if ever I saw any (note: I've not yet visited Italy). In every Hispanic sitcom and movie there is a sissy character---along with a clown, drunkard, and enormously top-heavy bimbo---and nary a disco bar does not showcase drag queens.

Homosexuals want to overturn our democratic system

Am glad, nonetheless, that Rev Rodriguez and others are strategically fighting to uphold California's constitutional amendment, Proposition 8, that sensibly recognizes marriage as only between a man and a woman.


While 12% of the nation reside in California a larger percentage---16%---of homosexual couples call it home. I guess they like surfing and driving from the mailbox to Starbucks en route to the tanning salon. Homosexuals want to overturn our democratic system and make the world revolve around them and their feelings because, as their mothers always told them, they are special.


For their part, as always but especially in the wake of California Supreme Court's upholding of the marriage ban, same-sex marriage advocates are taking to media campaigns that massage public opinion; that is to say, feelings and emotions. Utterly glamorous. Fools will fall for it, of course. One group, Equality California, is passing out bumper stickers that read "I Do."


I don't. You go Rev Rodriguez!

#1 drug kingpin is a Forbe's billionaire

While economics dip and dive (and bounce on a good day) even billionaires from Russian oligarch like Roman Abramovich to Mexican businessman Carlos Slim---who for a spell topped Forbes Magazine's wealthiest list but is again ranked third---notice the difference. For one thing, there's more dancing room in the gilded ballroom. According to the magazine the 2009 roll is shorter by 23% compared to last year's.







Speaking of Mexico, Forbes, with its hardworking investigators and sleeping ethicists, listed as one of the newest nueavu riche Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman with a net worth estimated at $12 billion. El Chapo also 'happens' to head the Sinaloa cartel and controls half of the $30+ billion in drug shipments to America.

Sí, Mr Guzman is the most wanted narcotraficante in Mexico! Apparently this slips the radar of the Mexican federal government---as most important things do.

But, to his credit, Presidente Calderón is seriously trying to combat the problem that threatens to devolve Mexico into a bona fide narco state.


Still, the richest of the world are still rich and, so, I can hardly feel their pain. As most can hardly imagine, let alone feel, mine.

How often have I said to you [Watson] that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

Kasparov warns America against Moscow

President Obama's trips to London and Europe are as much damage repair from the Monkey's mess as it is drumming up support for our problems in Afghanistan and Iraq. Concensus is the President aced the former but EU leaders budged nary a centimeter on the latter cause.

There are lots of photos of the First couple meeting with the English monarchy. There's even one with the President palling around, as Mrs Palin might put it, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to whom the New York Times discovered he sent a secret letter weeks ago. Speculation is that the letter was an intimate attempt at brokering some alliance against Iran which is itching for a fight.

President Obama "palling around", as racist Mrs Palin might put it, with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Communists AND fascists...oh my!!

According to Gary Kasparov, a man who knows more a than a thing or two about strategic plays, this move is ironic and ass-backwards as oil revenues sustain the current Russian regime which he believes is on the skids. "It is in [Putin's] interests to increase tensions in the Middle East as a way of driving up global oil prices," Mr Kasparov wrote in the Wall Street Journal last month (March 5th).

Contrary to American news reports and sentiments Mr Kasparov cautions---strongly---against cozying up to Moscow. "The West must not be tempted by a desire to maintain comfortable relations with the current government in charge of Russia" because "in all likelihood Mr Putin will not be around that much longer" and presumably neither will his greedy billionaire cronies.

It is in [Putin's] interests to increase tensions in the Middle East

The Russian economy may be on the skids and its bureaucracy in convulted shambles but with an over-confident Iran in the wings American forces can hardly contend with introducing another player into this Middle East tragedy playing out now. Moreover, with attendance already low it is foolish to count on European allies wanting to buy in on this act.

Imagination for [Edgar Allen Poe] was a crutch...Imagination has fewer pitfalls than reality has.

Franz Kafka

Dash

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All books have a front cover
and back
But. It's the in-between
that comprises substance.
There we find, if it be
the ground that matters, the
portion that counts. Everything
that transpires from start to
finish is what makes one worthwhile.
Of minute significance, in the grand
scheme of things, matters the size of the
read: short stories, novellas, novels, judicial text
What next? We all have an ave and vale
But. It is the straight line extending
from the one to the other that distinguishes
us, that makes me different from you and you
and you and you. A year followed by
a dash followed by another year. And to look
at it, a dash is a dash is a dash is a dash. And all
books laid on their sides look too similar with
blocks of white bound betwixt two binders.
But. It is when we open the book and read the
colors with its trials and tribulations; loves sustained
and lost; challenges faced or conquered; defeats tasted;
travels undertaken; perplexities explored; charities bestowed;
labor toiled; advances contributed; constructions built; Auld Lang Synge
and the ilk.
And in review, I think will be seen, that although the etching be banal and
uniformly small, sometimes a dash is a not a dash is not a dash like them
all.


ScholarSpartan

Nobody wants to hang Bernard Madoff?

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The U.S. recession isn't spelling gloom and doom for everyone. Starbucks is still abrewing so somebody's buying those $4 biscotties and pricey lattes and smoothies. Hollywood hacks are still being offered millions for making terrible movies and strippers aren't quitting their...well, night jobs. Mexican immigrant gardeners, in California no less despite the state's double-digit unemployment hike, aren't feeling the economic pinch either. Rich white people succumbing to mowing their own lawns and pruning their own bushes? Ha, that's rich!

Nor is the art world about to to get hip to discounts. Afterall, dears, discounts, like paying taxes, are for the little people.

Chinese-born artist Yan Pei-Ming exhibited his 60"x 90" watercolor of con man Bernard Madoff at this year's Armory Show. The large portrait was fetching a large price: $100,000. While it didn't go unnoticed---it was quite the attraction---the piece did go unsold; probably due to the six-figure price tag, or the subject matter, or the economic crash, or all of the above. Who knows? In New York City, art collectors have been known to buy shit on a canvas. Literally.

Perhaps this fashionista fact is what keeps Mr Pei-Ming unfazed. Undaunted by the lingering Madoff watercolor, the artist surmised, "Everything can be sold in this world." P.T. Barnum would be proud.