Meg Whitman spends ANOTHER $20 mil

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When a black man is acquitted of a crime (angry white translation: "guilty as sin, just not found guilty") his detractors claim he bought his way out, he bought his freedom. Understandably, such detractors are unaccustomed to "black men" and "not guilty" being used in the same sentence.

Yet here is Meg Whitman in California and before her, Mayor Bloomberg in NYC, just spending MILLIONS of her own money to win public office. Millions and millions of her wealth, millions in the two digits, just to be able to hold a political office and say, "I feel your pain." Why? And: Bitch no you don't! If you've personally $90 million dollars to spend on a campaign of handshakes, photo ops, debates, and corny political commercials, when you've already proven yourself a success in the business/corporate/Silicon Valley world then there is no earthly way you know what it's like to live on my street. Yet some idiot voters are eating it up! But, save for the talking head pundits, the Public doesn't lambast her and so many other self-made millionaires for buying votes. (Why would a rich man need to enter politics?)  

Yes, I expect successful, bright individuals to enter politics. I don't want a raggedy candidate who has only ideals and slogans, and no pot in which to piss. But there is a canyon of difference betwixt a "rich" person who campaigns for a post and one who is willing and determined to spend as much money as it takes to win that post. These "public servants" don't want to help you in as much as they crave power; more and more power.

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Q:

WHAT'S RED & WHITE ALL OVER AND RACIST AT EVERY BORDER?

A:

it's no riddle to this but it's a big wonder that

a "dangerous" threat to Canuckistan's borders

is a young man who is black 

(period omitted because there's more to come...)

This T-shirt certainly tops Super Bitch

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I once heard of a woman who was so confident and bad she proudly sported a shirt that announced to the world: I'M A SUPER BITCH. Man, with a statement like that no exclamation point is needed! Since she has a college degree she wasn't just any beeeaatch but, hello, a "super" one, see?

Today on the Greyhound bus I saw a young woman----you'll see why I didn't write 'lady'----whose shirt one-ups all those educated beeeaatches. It arrested my attention: "I HAVE THE PUSSY ----"

Indeed! But that's hardly worth mentioning unless you know how to share.

When she stood up to take advantage of a smoke break the rest of the message that was obscured and tucked under her left breast fell clear. In its entirety it read: I HAVE THE PUSSY. SO I MAKE THE RULES.

Goodness! Shut my mouth wide open! People just share all of their business nowadays. And not as much as a kitty cat logo in sight for pun's sake. 

He be smoking!

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A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it

Malcolm X

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3pm: A moment of silence for Memorial Day

national moment of remembrance

The boring excitement of Miss USA Pageant

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Miss USA? Didn't know the contest was even on. By now it falls under the Who Cares category. Thanks to Internet porn and the Victoria Secret televised fashion show the Miss USA contest just ain't worthwhile watching anymore. But congratulations to whatshername that won.

Liberal bullshit in Puerto Vallarta

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The Puerto Vallarta Scene Forum is an all-around news & gossip electronic bulletin board. Open to almost anything except unless it is contrary to the webmaster and the other liberal narrow minds who live on it. I get it. I do: Canadians and Americans flock to Vallarta to escape people who don't think like them, to work on that permanent tan, to make their savings stretch, to patronize Mexicans (and Mexican hustlers).


It was that last part which so irked the forum webmaster who calls himself Freeeye. When I posted the following critique against the Antropology Bar

Freeeye's knee-jerk reaction was to call me a right-wing nut and accuse me of slander...because, apparently, anyone who doesn't like a part of the Vallarta scene is a neo-con, neo Nazi, Sarah Palin supporter, right-wing nut, bigot; I've been called them all by "open-minded" people who seem to never leave the computer. Losers are as losers do. If you find fault with any aspect of Old Vallarta's affluent hippy and/or homosexual dogmas, then surely you are, to sum the above names, a bad man.

I'm a muckraker other. Other, referring to those "communities" who think their shit don't stink owing to their anti-war commitments

Why would the webmaster (and the others, all foreigners and, I suspect, all white) take exception to my piece on the Antropology Bar? (Click above link show me the racism!) Maybe the bar owner, Jose, is his drinking or butt buddy? Or maybe, like so many other gringos, Freeeye is just another exploitative expat and likes to get his rocks off with the cheap chichifos. Consequently this made me the unwanted whistle-blower (click 'exploitative' link to see how I upset the Vallarta Scene liberal hypocrites) and I've been permanently banned. Ob la dee, ob la da. This is why I've never cottoned to these electronic social boards: they are nearly never discussions and they are always a waste of time.


But I'm not just a whistle-blower. I'm a muckraker other. Other, referring to those "communities" who think their shit don't stink owing to their anti-war, anti-GOP, heterophobic commitments. Wake up! Republicans, Christians and straight people don't own racism and bigotry.


I'm sure Freeeye et al. also took massive exception when, after posting about his marriage to a "professional whore" and a son who was a "pimp-- his words, not mine - I informed him:  1) he was sharing way too much (irrelevant)information and suggested 2) maybe he should marry another "whore." 

No wonder Freeeye's avatar is that of a hobo cat. Booyah!

Vallartascene.com

Bienvenido el presidente

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The Obamas are holding a state dinner in honor of Mexican President and Mrs Calderon. President Calderon has wasted little time with circumspection, expressing his--and Mexico's--discontent with, among other things, Arizona's new anti-immigration measures.


Well!


The Third World president has yet to address the American Congress but it'll be little surprise what he has to say. In advance I share with you a sobering Time article by fellow alumnus, Tim Padgett:

Mexico's Calderon Needs to Listen, Not Just Lecture U.S.

UN places foxes in the hen house

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By electing countries with track records of human rights violations to the Human Rights Council the United Nations has, again, displayed dubious wisdom. Among the new seats are Malaysia and Libya. The U.N. isn't the goodwill ship it purports to be anyway, and it isn't a highly organized or efficient body either as this latest crap shoot shows.

Click here to read the A.P. item. 

Ceci n'est pas un homme

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This is not a man. This is a picture of a woman who wishes very badly she were a man and even believes she has become one. Reality: she is a fat, mannish bull dike. Mannish but never a man...uh...mademoiselle.

When in Vancouver root for the Blackhawks

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My interest in hockey is on par with wanting a yeast infection. But I find myself in Vancouver the same time as the Chicago Blackhawks are battling against the Canucks for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

It was hard finding any watering hole that was not showing the game thus putting a damper on my appetite for an afternoon cocktail. (Plus drinks are a bit costly here. Canadian prices are a trip + tax!) Eventually my thirst for the elixir vitae won out and I left the Same Sun Hostel in search of a less rowdy lot of drinking fans. It was the third quarter, which I would soon learn represents the final quarter in the sport. Score was tied 2:2.

Still what cared I for the game? Hungrily sipping my glass of wine (Gato Negro, Cabernet Sauvignon) and reading The Life of Pi I was content to be the oddball at the bar with a book. I was right: the crowd was a less rowdy one...more semi-posh, as it were. Then a red jersey scored another point and, unthinkingly, my fist pumped the air, Yes! Suddenly poor little Pi on his makeshift raft was old news. Then from a far wall of the rink the puck again soared through space and squarely into the Canuck's net. Chicago 4:Vancouver 2. The less rowdy semi-posh crowd groaned their dissatisfaction at the inevitable. Only seconds remained and the home team would need more than that to taste victory tonight. Go, Chicago, go! I had no idea hockey could be so entertaining.   

First half of manuscript done...finally!

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Just finished editing the manuscript of my next book. Finally. Oh how good it feels to be through this part!

Such is my desk....

 

A new smile on the face of establishment. (A Repeat)

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At the local library several weeks back I bought a handful of books to read for fun. Being abroad makes me even more eager for reading ANYTHING that's in English. One of them was a political science text book The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics (fourth edition) by Thom. R Dye & L Harmon Zeigler. With an uncommon title like that I was hooked to see what lay behind the cover. It was published in 1978. Keep that in mind. The 10th Chapter (The Presidency in Crisis), in particular, however struck me as being very much about the "now." 


Jimmy Carter figured prominently in the then-new edition and I was awed by what the authors laid out in the section "Jimmy Carter: A New Smile on the Face of the Establishment".

"James Earl Carter, Jr., is a political "outsider" who was catapulted in less than two years from a Plains, Georgia, peanut farmer to president f the United States. At first glance, Carter's meteoric rise from rustic obscurity to the nation's most powerful office would seem to demolish the elitist notion that leaders are selected from upper-class backgrounds or from the ranks of seasoned officeholders. But a closer examination of elite concerns in 1976--especially concern over declining public confidence in established elites themselves--together with Carter's reassuring, smiling, "we're -okay" style of politics--provides a better understanding of how and when an "outsider" will be selected for national leadership."

In that section of the book the authors proceed to argue that in 1976 established elites were very concerned with the public's noticeable declining trust in all things political; said elites undertook a makeover of the leadership structure by replacing old, "experienced" faces with fresh ones; that the makeover was purely cosmetic "and would include no fundamental changes in policies, programs, or values." 

Starting to sound familiar?

"The national news media paid little attention to Carter's December 1974 (Obama February 2007) announcement of his presidential candidacy...observers everywhere expected that established leaders----Hubert H Humphrey or Edward M Kennedy (Hilary Clinton & John Edwards)----would win the presidency in 1976 (2008)...However Carter knew the first two primaries were in New Hampshire and Florida (Iowa & New Hampshire). The first was a small state (Iowa) where he had two years to engage in  face-to-face campaigning. These two early primary victories brought Carter recognition that he needed (Obama took first in Iowa, second in New Hampshire). Would either of the heavy weights, Humphrey or Kennedy (Al Gore),  enter the race and take the prize away from Carter. Carter avoided specifics on issues, and campaigned on charm, decency, and brotherly love...described himself as 'a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor, and a Christian' (biracial, community organizer, scholar, outsider, Christian)...His choice of Walter Mondale (Joe Biden) as vice presidential running mate assured liberals that he was not a southern populist (elitist naive northern populist)...he emphasizes his humble beginnings. Carter brought a new down-home image into national politics [but] stuck closely to established liberal remedies for society's problems: social programs for the poor and aged; civil rights commitments for blacks (homosexuals); jobs for the unemployed; federal aid for cities (bailout monies); tax 'reform' (health care reform)....

    

Jimmy Carter's rapid rise to national leadership, and his welcome into top elite circles, represents still another tactic available to an embattled elite----replace the old faces associated with past defeats and humiliations with smiling new faces promising honesty, compassion, and good times (Yes We Can! 2008)."

Now, does this political analysis sound thirty years old to you? 
So while the Camelot comparisons were lost on no one, perhaps we should actually be comparing President Obama to the unglamorous Carter.

100+ Chinese miners rescued !

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Glory be! After being trapped underground for over a week rescuers have so far today pulled up more than 110 miners within hours.

click here or the title to read the amazing news

Roman Catholicism is a big sham

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Roman Catholic Church has never been about Christianity insofar as charity, peace, humility and humanity are concerned. It's been a front from Day One. An insular govt in a puny region which has successfully garnered fearful followers worldwide...and the respect of world leaders owing to the Vatican's supposed 'importance' in the world. 

Its history of sodomites is less and less "okay" or conjectured hearsay. They are factual sins brought into the light

It was the ancient Roman Empire who detested Jesus Christ and, thanks to the jealousy of rabbis, were able to snare him on trumped up charges which led to his immaculate crucifixion. So the Jews were not alone in killing Jesus. Then Rome has the hubris----or is it chutzpah?----to change its stronghold from territorial (empire) to supernatural (religion), making itself into a Church and deify the very bastard they so grandly executed. Mama mia! Fidel Castro took a page right from their playbook. He is probably the only dictator whose image is conspicuously absent in lieu of his fallen comrade Che Guevara whose image is ubiquitous.


The Roman Catholic Church is Satan's whore. Always has been. Every studious Protestant knows this. Now the Church's culture of secrecy and cover-up is catching up with it. Its history of sodomites is less and less "okay" or conjectured hearsay. They are factual sins brought into the light. In the news this week is written testimony that a nasty bugger was among them and was allowed to remain among them by no less authority than the man who would become Pope Benedict XVI. (This probably doesn't make him the worst pope though. Not for me, at least. A quick read of some other pontiffs ranks him almost as harmless as a patsy.)

One bad apple in the cart for very long does not stand apart

When a religious tribunal deems one of its own members satanic, as did the Arizona Diocese in the 1990s, yet maintains that bad apple in the cart, then there is something very, very wrong with that organization. One bad apple in the cart for very long does not stand apart. Rev Michael Teta was at last called to the carpet for his twenty year string of molestation and deemed by the tribunal to perpetrate "almost a satanic quality in his mode of acting toward young men and boys." Yet it would be over another decade before Rev Teta was formally defrocked.

When a god-fearing church needs formal or written permission to kick out a satanic congregant, then that church is fucked up. By the way, where's the U.N. now?? 

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

--Geo. Bernard Shaw

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But bonds of blood are truly slight...when they are not reinforced by affection.

Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar)

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C.S.Lewis

exempli gratia