Tony Soprano is my friend
Posted by admin - 09/10/08 at 02:10:44 amFrom: Prexy43 [Bush]
To: LiberalJerkwad [Tobin]
Subject: superanos
Can you explain that Sopranos ending? I don’t like TV that’s smarter than me, and I watch a lot of NBC, so that’s not usually a problem. (Burn!) But WTF, HBO? Did that greasy-looking guy pop him or what? Did A.J. end up abandoning his country to jerk off a bunch of Hollywood fags and Jews? Is that Russian guy from the forest the guy who’s counseling Putin to live up to the poo in his name? Why is a Homeland Security officer violating the holy sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman?
Mr. Cheney’s been all like, “Shouldn’t you be vetoing stem cell research?” lately, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the final ‘Pros. Would Tony die? Would he go to jail? Would Silvio and Paulie and his most trusted guys go down? Started me thinking about my own personal last Sopranos. Will I get killed (No; you call it “the higher ground,” I call it “being a bunch of pussies.”) Will I go to jail? Will Alby G and Mr. Rove and my most trusted guys go down? I think no. But I also think I’ll do better than making people listen to fucking Journey.
This No-Confidence Vote cracks me up. It’s almost as good as when the Dorkocrats tried to censure my black ass. To paraphrase what I said then, while you’re at it, why don’t you pass a bill saying Alberto has a smelly butt? Get the Supreme Court to rule he’s a fatty fat-fat. Maybe throw in a Constitutional Amendment that he eats his own boogers. No confidence? DOY! The 2006 election was a hundred no-confidence votes, and I so totally give a care.
Tony made it through The Sopranos without the hammer coming down, and you gotta believe I’m not Phil Leoretardo. I’m T without the mother issues.
What, the next president’s gonna get me? Have me tried for war crimes? Yeah, sure. You Dems are prettier this year, but this country isn’t about to elect someone who wasn’t even allowed to vote when this country started. Mrs. Bill? Black Osama? Right, right, right.
Don’t you get what people like about me? It’s not just that they’d rather have a (non-alcoholic) beer with me, it’s that I’m their protector. Al Quaeda pushes them down on the playground, I’m the one who beats up someone unrelated as revenge. I’m your big brother (hence my wiretaps). I make you feel safe, even if I make you less so. I’m your daddy. Who’s your daddy? I am. Say my name. Say it!
So now you think you’re gonna install a mommy? As if you Democrats don’t already look enough like pussies, now you want the president to have one? Nobody wants to know Bill Clinton fucked the president, okay? As for Obama, I know hiring a black guy to protect you works for rock stars and Ted DiBiase. But Obama’s one of those Chris Rock, Flavor Flav black guys. Unless he knows karate, that guy couldn’t beat John McCain with a steel chair.
No the smart money’s on Iron John, Slick Mitt, or Cross-Dressing Rudy. I watched the donkey debate, and everyone’s blabbing about universal health care and ending the war and hugging rainbows. Then I heard the elephants playing that wonderful wonderful fear card, making sure people know a vote against the GOP is vote for terrorism, anarchy, satanism, and horrible horribleness. You ever see A Bronx Tale, about whether it’s better to be feared or loved? Ask Tony Soprano which he preferred. Or keep the question in the present tense because that cat was as down with Gloria Gaynor as I am: we will survive. Deal with it.
-W
Ingredients for a great 2008 Olympics Party
Posted by admin - 07/10/08 at 04:10:08 amSo, I’ve decided to ring in the start of the Olympics in Beijing by throwing a party! You can do it too, just follow the steps below!
- Don’t allow your family to eat for a few years, and spend the money you saved on building a really amazing extension to your living room that somehow abstractly represents a flower of some kind. Oh, also buy the biggest and most advanced TV you can find.
- Connect your fancy new TV to your cable box. Get HD, get all the channels. Now, restrict all channels that have ever had Richard Gere appear on them. Yes, this includes TBS for showing Pretty Woman so many times. Matter of fact, ban Julia Roberts too. They kissed (even though Kit told her not too).
- Make sure your wireless internet is as fast as possible, but don’t allow certain websites to be viewed. It will save you time if you sign up with Comcast first … they will do most of the restricting for you (if they are allowed to).
- Go to the store and buy a bunch of burlap sacks, place them in the room where your friends will be coming over to watch the Games.
- Determine which neighbors don’t want you to have the party, or think you are generally a jerk, or who you think might think this. Go beat the shit out of them. Then turn off their internet and cable. (note, you may choose to turn of their internet or cable first, your call)
- Invite Yao Ming.
- Start trying to light the burlap sacks on fire. The goal is to fill you apartment up with smoke.
- Allow friends to start trickling in. If any are wearing masks so they can breath, beat the shit out of them, or scare them into apologizing (with the mask off).
- Any friends that look suspicious, like maybe they once saw a Richard Gere movie, assign a loyal friend who has a beating stick to follow them. Authorize this loyal friend to beat the shit out of the person they are tailing if they choke on the smoke or say anything about the wireless internet being restricted.
- Have a mock torch ceremony. Use the burning burlap sacks to light any sort of torch or flammable object you have in the house (maybe a broom?) … don’t worry about how fancy this ceremony is, nobody will be able to see it anyway with all the hippies blocking their view … let alone the thick smoke.
- Hang out with your friend George Bush. That guy knows how to party.
- Seriously kill any monks that show up. Blame them.
I promise, if you follow these SIMPLE steps you will be the envy of your neighborhood! I love the Olympics!
Did I miss any steps? Please put them in the comments.
“Scientist predicts ‘mini Ice Age’”
Posted by admin - 06/10/08 at 05:10:24 amScientist predicts ‘mini Ice Age’
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Feb. 7 2006 (UPI) — A Russian astronomer has predicted that Earth will experience a “mini Ice Age” in the middle of this century, caused by low solar activity.
Khabibullo Abdusamatov of the Pulkovo Astronomic Observatory in St. Petersburg said Monday that temperatures will begin falling six or seven years from now, when global warming caused by increased solar activity in the 20th century reaches its peak, RIA Novosti reported.
The coldest period will occur 15 to 20 years after a major solar output decline between 2035 and 2045, Abdusamatov said.
Dramatic changes in the earth’s surface temperatures are an ordinary phenomenon, not an anomaly, he said, and result from variations in the sun’s energy output and ultraviolet radiation.
The Northern Hemisphere’s most recent cool-down period occurred between 1645 and 1705. The resulting period, known as the Little Ice Age, left canals in the Netherlands frozen solid and forced people in Greenland to abandon their houses to glaciers, the scientist said.
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060207-041447-2345r
Hope and Change. Divide and Conquer. Stand Together.
Posted by admin - 04/10/08 at 08:10:35 amBuddha Por Octavio Ocampo
PART OF WHAT makes me feel gross inside this hoopla, this ultra hyper TV extravaganza-palooza that both parties are telegasming 24-7 is that ICE is cracking down with serious force on gente while the popcorn is being buttered and the lights being dimmed.
The scared elites on their sparkling shining heaps use all they can out there: media, distraction, propaganda, general ignorance, and all means of misdirection and misrepresentation to continue the war on the Brown®, the poor, the “meek”, some might say. I wouldn’t say. I would say that the fringe elements of this society surround the center, eh? Not so meek. Combined, las mujeres, the brown, the black, the golden, the gay, the women-all those who are not accounted for in the “UNIVERSAL”, in the default setting, make up quite a lot. Or maybe the “center” of this growing weave is not ‘whites’, but just those without honor, without heart, without sensitivity, without integrity. And the fringes…we’re bones and emotion. We’re fire and grito. We’re seeing things for what they are.
But either way, that’s always the aristocrat game. Divide and conquer the rabble.
Like this article, hey, it’s even titled Immigrant raid divides a Mississippi town.
LAUREL, MISS. — Fabiola Pena considered running away from her factory job when she realized she was being targeted in a federal immigration raid. She was deterred when she noticed the helicopters hovering overhead.But helicopters were not what shocked Pena the most on her last, fateful day at Howard Industries, the largest employer in this small Southern town. It was the black co-workers who clapped and cheered, Pena said, as she and hundreds of other Latino immigrant laborers were arrested and hauled away.
“They said we took their jobs, but I was working from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.,” said Pena, 21, a day after the raid last week that resulted in the arrest of nearly 600 suspected illegal immigrants. “I didn’t see them working like us.”-Immigrant raid divides a Mississippi town
“They need to go and do this in every little town,” Tonya Jackson said.Jackson, who is black, said that over the years she had applied numerous times for a job at the locally owned manufacturer, which employs about 4,000 workers. Jackson, 30, said she never received a callback. The raid, she said, was a welcome purge of illegal Latino laborers who had taken jobs they didn’t deserve.
“We’ve been here all our lives,” she said. “And it seems like they have just arrived and are getting the nice cars and the good homes.”
-Immigrant raid divides a Mississippi town
Because that’s sort of what these pendejos want. They want me to go head to head, and they want it to be with the blacks who are my friends. While they write these filthy essays determined to divide us, we really ought to simply remember the FIELDS.
Who has worked THE FIELDS? Who dies in the FIELDS?
THEM? Or your people and mine?
They seek to divide us. They seek to impress upon us their own Model of Scarcity (sombrero tip a Theriomorph), their own fears of losing the ability to suck up all the resources, their own fear of the hordes of Others coming to steal their treasure. They want us to adopt it so we fight their fearful battle and they keep their polished hands well-softened. The elites, those with batallions of fears marching in on their piles of wealth, armies of advantages at their command, even actual armies and private armies and five houses, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollares.
You and me? We have nada. But no-
We have hope, we have love, we have familia, we have pride. We have our histories, and our herstories and all our stories. We have heart. Let us remember this, it is all we have. So many give theirs away or leave it sitting cold and unattended, or woo it with a hail of coin.
Let us keep ours whole and in each other’s keeping. This storm won’t last forever. We will be the ones standing.
Just last Monday as the Democratic Convention was getting underway the largest immigration raid ever took place. 595 people were arrested. This post is a call for help.
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I HAD A ROUGH DAY in Denver. My second to the last day. I don’t have time to write much out, as tomorrow I leave for the RNC. But I traveled another mile in this journey I walk, the one that began with El Grito back in 2006. It was a good feeling, a good realization, a good mile. But it hurt. And I just about broke Twitter with sheer fury that morning. The moments kept adding up, you see. Day after day. From the bus rides and the racist attitudes of a handful of whites around me who wouldnt stop offering their ignorant views, to the agenda of the MSM. One moment was when a latina activist and amiga was used by a WaPo reporter who she trusted. But Vargas, the slimeball, put words in her mouth, added Latina Stereotyping to the article, and changed her very political stances.
Another moment was when ICE was raiding mississippi with the biggest raid yet, families were being destroyed, labor workers were cheering-cheering cheering cheering. I kept hearing cheering On the news everywhere was cheering and laughing and confetti falling for a multimillion dollar party. On the bus was sneering. So we speak of MLK and a brand new day and hope and hope and hope for change. And everywhere I looked, arrows and daggers and walls are closing in on people. Chota on the streets with bats and bullets and beatdowns for the people who dare to stand up and speak to the State. Abuse and control, not in any new way, perhaps. But it wasn’t change I can believe in. And so I removed myself from the lobby and sat out in the sun by the pool and cried.
And I wasn’t interested in standing with sardines, wasting hours in line to go watch the big scripted event. (Which is why Kai and I took the route we did.) I was left empty in the belly with this “representation” and the Hope of the Day and the Story of the Day. It wasn’t my Story of the Day, you see. And it did not give me enough hope.
It’s funny. I had a bit to do with the formation (and all of the design) of The Sanctuary. That, in part, came out of my disappointment with Ykos 07. (A XOLAGRAFIK documentary not yet made, but it will be, footage is all digitized.)
While I was in Denver, someone from an org sent a carom shot through someone else to attempt to tame my voice, or teach me framing. As if. You see why they didn’t waste their time and come straight to me, but put it in someone else’s ear? Well, they know it’s a waste of time. Although it’s not the last time an org or org person mentioned the same.
But oye, I don’t frame. I don’t “Frame” and I don’t FRAME. I speak my heart and mind. I do not do it for some dull or dry or ideological reason, nor to be an Ally or a friend or a Political Activist. I do it like I would stand in front of my mother or mijita or mi amor if a threat showed up. I do it for Lucha, and for Felipe. For Jeno and Alejo. For Juanita and Vicente. Mi familia. Mi gente. And nothing you say speaks to me louder than their voices.
And anyway, I’m doing it for me. And I already know how to speak my heart.
But to add injury to insult, the types of groups that imagine they somehow deserve the bullhorn for Migrant Advocacy? They equivocate, say one thing, do another, or just turn their backs when it counts, like the blanquitos they wish I would be. Nobody at the DNC-aside from my little posse of sanity-was talking about the raids in any way that mattered.
It’s you and me, gente. We are many and we are strong. Let us not be convinced otherwise. Let us stand together.
FISA Bill Question
Posted by admin - 30/09/08 at 06:09:38 amWith the passing of the FISA bill today in the Senate I had a few questions. First I have to say I agree with DM’s assessment below. I think the bill is lousy and shouldn’t be passed. Will that stop me from voting for Obama? No, because the alternative is far worse. I still believe that Obama is going to accomplish some very positive things while he is in office. Yes, the FISA bill is important to me but not my number one issue.
With that said I have a question: The FISA bill gives immunity to the telecoms but does it give immunity to the President? Is the President off the hook for initiating all of this in the first place? It seems to me that we should be going after him (and whoever else) as he was the main person involved. I ask because it seems to me that yes the telecoms are now immune to any further prosecution but should we fault them because they followed the law like they were supposed to?
I’m thinking there is more to this than I realize. I know you guys can help fill me in.
Diversity? Memphis
Posted by admin - 29/09/08 at 05:09:44 amDiversity Memphis celebrated its annual Humanitarian Awards at a dinner this past Thursday evening. For this writer it was an eye-opening experience and a lesson in Memphis politics and race relations — or lack of them.
The racial make-up of the population of Memphis is made up of: Black — 61.1% White — 33.6% Asian — 2.4% Other Races — 2.9%, so it’s not surprising when the word “Diversity” in Memphis refers to the relations between its black and white citizens. What is surprising is that this week’s awards ceremony honored 5 very deserving individuals, yet only one of them was black.
What’s that all about? Surely there are other individuals in Memphis whose service to people and the community deserve recognition and who reflect the racial demographics of the city.
That said, there were inspiring moments: Gayle Rose encouraged us to not let others define us and resist taking up the mantle of privilege or of poverty - Gid Smith, obviously ill, receiving the award with maximum dignity and Mark L. Stansbury who had a solid hold on his “drug” problem (you had to have been there).
Kudos to these recipients, but Memphis, you should know better and do better.
Closing Time…For Now
Posted by admin - 27/09/08 at 09:09:53 amYou don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.
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Here is Your Chance to Be a Part of the Big Picture?
Posted by admin - 26/09/08 at 04:09:33 amIf you could tell Barack Obama one thing… Just one. What would it be? How about John McCain? What would you convey to arguably the most powerful man on the face of the planet? The next President of the United States…
Well you better come up with something good because JoinTheDot™ is giving you the opportunity.
Artist David Ilan, will create portraits of each candidate for JoinTheDot™ using the unique method of art known as pointillism, in which millions of tiny hand-drawn dots will be used to create one larger image.
Ilan will create two separate presidential portraits, one of Democratic candidate Barack Obama and one of Republican candidate John McCain.
The really unique thing is, each dot represents one person, one vote, one message… Because every person who participates at JoinTheDot™ will get their own dot in the portrait of the candidate of their choice, with their message attached.
Honestly… I hope they do something like this for the Vice Presidential candidates as well…
My message would be for the VPilf. Sarah Palin… Do you like me, and not like a friend either… Do you like me, like me? If you do give me some sort of a sign… A wink, tug on your ear, a thumbs up… Something, anything so I’ll know…
Awwww… Thanks babe. I dig you too.
I’m just sayin’…
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Jealousy is Such an Ugly Emotion
Posted by admin - 25/09/08 at 11:09:53 am
A couple weeks ago I wrote about Hatred. Hatred’s bed fellow and constant companion? Jealousy. Yesterday, as Jesse Jackson commented that for the unspeakable crime of asking Black fathers to become involved in their child’s lives, he wanted to “cut his nuts off”.
Perhaps there are some skeletons in the elder Jackson’s closet that he doesn’t want to face, ya think?
He’s been in the public eye for too long and has made one too many snafu’s in my opinion. Assuming that anything you say in a public setting is private is ridiculous, probably insincere and at the least naive. And I don’t really believe Jesse is naive.
I was confused by some of the outrage over Senator Obama’s comments. Do some of us still live in a fantasy land in which our issues are somehow only secretly known to us and should remain that way? Unless you have been living under a rock, everyone in America (and abroad) is painfully aware that absentee parenting is and has been one of our major issues. Do you honestly believe that white America was somehow unaware until Obama mentioned it?
So often we lose focus on the message, opting to spend more time concentrating on how it was delivered, by who, when, where, etc. All that doesn’t matter nearly as much as the message itself. And the message is a simple one. Our kids are our most important asset, and some of the ills of our society can be attributed to the breakdown of the family. I believe fathers AND mothers need to step it up. (more on Mothers later)
The most unfortunate part of what Jesse said, was not only the content, but the fact that it was delivered by another Black man - and what that had previously - albeit a little late - pledged his support.
Once again, we need to learn to focus on the issues and stop the in-fighting. Bickering is for children. Adults should identify the problem, discuss potential solutions and decide on a course of action, and implement. Keyword - SHOULD.
Kurt Vonnegut
Posted by admin - 24/09/08 at 04:09:38 amHearing that Kurt Vonnegut has died made me very sad. Since I’m on the move I don’t have any of his books to hand to quote from, which has made me late to his wake. However yesterday I read a passage in an essay by another great American writer which sums up far more eloquently than I am able to the significance of people like Kurt Vonnegut. In “Down at the Cross”, James Baldwin says:
“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: it is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.” (The Fire Next Time, p123). (more…)