Heat rant.

*You all will have to hang with me a little while I do this post. When it's hot like this outside I tend to rant a little bit. BTW, all of you - the earth is flat- global warming deniers can kiss my a%&. In case you didn't notice, it's 105 degrees in damn near 90% of the country. Dopes! I might not be an expert when it comes to this crap, but I know how I feel when I step outside.

Anyway, where do I start? OK, let me start with the [right] wingnut who killed over ninety people in Norway. Apparently they are calling this attacker their Timothy McVeigh. A true [right] wingnut with nationalist views. So he goes to a labor party youth camp and kills over 80 -mostly- young people. That's like a wingnut going to a DNC Youth Council convention and letting it rip.  

Funny, I am looking at the *guy, and I am guessing that there is no way that he would be scrutinized while getting on a plane or buying fertilizer. Hmmm, so maybe it's not just those evil Moooslims who are capable of doing despicable things. I am just saying.

Anywhoo, as is to be expected, the [right] wingnuts are already crying conspiracy and claiming that this guy is not one of theirs. Nice try. But if it shoots like a duck....

I always thought that something stunk over at MSNBC when they got rid of Cenk Uygur so soon. It's not like his ratings were that much worse than any of the other clowns over there. And then I read the following post over at Jack & Jill Politics:

"Uygur often refused to treat members of the political and media establishment with deference and respect. He didn’t politely imply with disguised subtleties when he thought a politician or media figure was lying or corrupt, but instead said it outright. In interviews, he was sometimes unusually aggressive with leading Washington figures, subjecting them to civil though hostile treatment to which they were plainly unaccustomed.
[...]
Uygur explained that, several months ago, he was summoned to a meeting with MSNBC boss Phil Griffin and told that while it is fun and enjoyable to be an “outsider,” that is not what MSNBC is for. Instead, Griffin told him, MSNBC is “part of the establishment,” and Uygur must conduct himself in accordance with that reality. It’s perfectly fine in establishment discourse to express contempt for one of the two political parties. It’s equally fine to periodically criticize your own. But what is most assuredly not fine — particularly in a high-profile nighttime spot and without having a real power base that comes from mammoth ratings — is to be aggressively adversarial to the political establishment itself and the financial interests that fund, own and control that political system. That is what Uygur was, and while there’s no evidence that this was the primary cause of his removal, it was clearly a serious source of dissatisfaction with the station’s executives, including MSNBC’s chief.
[...]
Nobody succeeds at a large corporation without understanding and accommodating the prevailing ethos and the interests of that corporation as perceived by one’s bosses. As Uygur explains, the more important someone becomes to the success of a corporation (as Maddow has), the more flexibility they have to depart from, even violate, some of the unstated rules, but no corporate employee — including media stars — will last long if they step too far out (News Corp. even rid itself of Glenn Beck despite declining-though-still-impressive-for-his-time-slot ratings; there were multiple factors, including a successful advertiser boycott, but clearly one factor was that he had departed so far from the standard two-party-system discourse, and had become so adversarial to the establishment itself, that, despite those ratings, it was no longer consistent with News Corp.’s interests to keep him on the air)."

OK, so this explains why they stuck Rev. Al in there. It works every time: stick the black man in there to shut up those who question you.

We will miss Amy Winehouse, girlfriend is dead at 27. She had a big and soulful voice, but sadly, she just couldn't beat her demons.

FYI, if you happen to manage a rock star who likes to dabble in drugs, when they turn 27 you better spend the entire year with them or lock them in a room.

Finally, I have a question for Michele Bachmann: If god did, indeed, tell you to run for president; why didn't you ask her to cure your migraines while you had her ear?  







 




 

No deal for you Negro!

Rrrrrriing. Rrrrrriing.Rrrrring. "Mr.Boehner, that's coming from the White House, are you going to answer it?" "No, f&^k that nig guy. Let it ring."

Poor O, he can't even get these clowns to answer his phone calls these days. Mr. Tan Man walked away from talks on the debt ceiling and it doesn't look like he is coming back anytime soon. He held a press conference tonight and put down a marker on behalf of his wingnut friends.

I guess O thought that he had my man figured out after a few rounds of golf but he was wrong. He will never be able to get into the mind of a wingnut.

"Obama’s rhetorical floundering is the sound of a bewildered politician trying to be heard over the long, withdrawing roar of ebbing faith in a failing model of governance. From Greece to California, with manifestations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Illinois and elsewhere, this model is collapsing. Entangled economic and demographic forces are refuting the practice of ever-bigger government financed by an ever-smaller tax base and by imposing huge costs on voiceless future generations.

Richard Miniter, a Forbes columnist, is right: “Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev.” Beneath the tattered, fading banner of reactionary liberalism, Obama struggles to sustain a doomed system. Democrats’ dependency agenda — swelling the ranks of government employees, multiplying government-subsidized industries, enveloping ever-more individuals in the entitlement culture — is buckling under an intractable contradiction: It is incompatible with economic growth sufficient to create enough wealth to feed the multiplying tax eaters. " [Source]

O, with all due respect; it's time to double down. Show George Will and others that if this is to be the end of big government we will not go down without a fight. Show them that what the progressive proposes is not "incompatible with economic growth", but by putting people first, it is essential for it to take place.

The people who make up the "entitlement culture" are the fat cats and corporations who have been sucking the life out of this country for their own selfish gains and giving nothing in return. Steve Wynn, for instance, has the nerve to cry a river over Obama's policies hurting his bottom line yet his company had a growth of over 300 million dollars from the same time last year, and his stock prices have more than tripled since 2009. Yeah, some Socialist.

Sorry Mr. Wynn, it seems that the government subsidies Mr. Will complains about has only helped folks like you.

"Obama displayed frustration with the Republicans, saying Boehner had failed to return his phone calls during the day, observing it wasn’t the first time during the debt-limit talks he had been “left at the altar,” and declaring the Republicans had walked away from “an extraordinarily fair deal.”

O, my question to you would be this: Why would you want to get married to those people in the first place? 










    

A couple of days in D.C.

So anyway, I am here in D.C. for this broadband conference and I am surrounded by all these powerful and influential people. The conference organizer is a very smart and hard working guy named Dvid Honig (Georgetown Law the whole nine), and he has done a wonderful job of bringing together everyone with power, money, and influence in the Internet and telecom industry. David is very committed to making sure that poor people and people of color have high speed Internet and broadband access. Right now I am listening to some dude named Aneesh Chopra who is O's director of technology in his Office of Science & Technology Policy....or some such thing.

Anywhoo, now I know why O fails to connect with us folks out here in the real world on so many levels. He has all these smart people around him with all these really great ideas, but they don't really know how to put the nuts and bolts together. They seem to lack street awareness and know how. Just my two cents.

I sat next to Marc Morial at lunch. He seems like cool people, and he gave a really nice speech. Just to make conversation I told him that I would like to interview him for the blog sometime, and he said cool. I felt bad about lying to fam because I really don't interview people. But it's all good. He will forget about his promise by the end of the day. He has much more important things on his plate right about now. I wonder if either him or Ben Jealous will ask O why he is meeting with my brown brothers and sisters and not us black folks?(You Negroes can be so Jealous.-no pun intended-)

I am listening to some brother who sounds like the dude who told Axel Foley that he is not falling for the "banana in the tail pipe" trick in Beverly Hills Cop, and he is going on and on about opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation in the broadband industry: Blah blah blah blah....I know that there is a point to all of this, but I just haven't figured it out yet. I mean unless your name is AT&T, Verizon or Comcast, I am not sure how you can really be a player here in Washington. Uncle Rupert sure figured it all out. But when you have loot like he does you can start on third base.

Still, it's nice to see that Honig is bringing in all the big boys to make them accountable. Not to mention the fact that he is keeping the spotlight on the FCC so that they don't renege on all the promises that they made to us about minority inclusion when it comes to media ownership.

Anyway, I want to own a radio station. The call letters would be WNOJIG. So let me look around while I am here; I just need some investors to get that bad boy off the ground. "Hello sir, I was noticing your name tag, The Field Negro. Hmmm very provocative. We might have talk about that."

OK, maybe I have to lose the name tag, first.      



               

An Almost Weekend G-roundup

For two hours tomorrow I will pretend like I care about span (work) and then just walk out and roll on my merry way to the "Y" (Kimberley).

Me and my boy Herman who now lives in Australia looked into the origins and reasons for calling Kimberley the "Y".

We started somewhere around Standard 6 (fourth grade) and the answer is still not entirely apparent.

You may ask why.  And in so doing you would be close to why Kimberley folks who know call that dusty pretend town that sits around a big hole the "Y".

Get it?  Geez yo'.  The why?  = The "Y"?

See?  That is all we have come up with in too long and both of us be geniuses.  And Herman is even smarter than a genius.  The boy could play the piano when the rest of us were still fascinated with making a door bell ring repeatedly even after the door was opened.

So, the "Y" it is till Sunday when I come back to white city (Pretoria) for one last Monday and four more days of pretending and then I will raise my middle finger in salute to what was mostly a wasted year in intellectual development terms.

What it did learn me is that a whole lot of South African academics like to pretend like they know sh*t but they don't really.

They as provincial now as they were when the academic boycott kept them xeroxing shit from out of print texts they held onto closer than their respective holy books.

They still Xerox any sh*t they can find and will pull out bound copies to show they keeping up with ideas that were novel around three decades ago.

And if you catch them out they will explain the process for telling them they know sh*t.

"Ehhhh ... Dr. Lahaaar you need to fill out a forem to tell me to f*rckk off like dat.  And ehhhh please provide the forems in tripleekit so we can keep files for ouwa shareholdaz and auditaz."

If you know f*ck-all then create a bureaucracy to hide it.  If you can't or won't provide what you promise create a bureaucracy and frustrate folks cause that is how you survive.

My father told me just before he died that his entire life in South Africa seemed like one paper trial after another. 

I did not fully appreciate what he mean't then but I do now.  South Africans do not really exist unless they are attached to this or that form.

And, of course, the all-mighty ID book!  Yo' nothing gets done on the whole and even less than nothing gets done without this piece of contrived sh*t they call an ID book.

Seems Mandela's lackeys felt lost without pass books and just equalized its sh*t and now we all carry pass books.

But so it be and so it will stay.  Well cause we a sh*t for brains country.

Oh yeah, for the Guru Philes you should know he of spirits both heavenly and alcoholic is having a "house warm lunch" to celebrate his new posey (house) in what used to be a white area.

His invitation was notoriously unspecific and it was anything but welcoming/assuring.  It was a text and it read like so:

"U invited to my house warm lunch this sunday
in ... at about twelve.  Please confirm attend asap
as i need to calculate food chairs, etc.
Regards mooi." 

What the f*ck is a "house warm lunch"?  Is he of spiritual ho-ing gonna warm some leftovers on sunday "at about twelve"?

Twelve what?  Noon?  Midnite?

And how the f*ck does one "calculate food chairs"?  Is this fool finally just over the edge?

I have never had a dish called "food chairs" or had it "calculated".  Brown/black folk don't calculate sh*t ... especially not "food chairs"!

So I sent the delusional b*tch an "asap" to tell his formerly-ANC ass that he planned this on purpose knowing I would be in Kimberley.

In his typical godly and holy manner he ignored my text.  Two days later he forwarded me an email with a description of a cell phone that doubles as a gun.

He wrote: "You need one of these for all the people, and that means everybody really, who pisses you off."

If I had it now I would be calling your ass.  Believe me Guru.

AnyHowze, happy "house warm" son.  I hope that literal castle you built will remind you of the days when you were a struggle comrade and talked sh*t about the masses and being part of their struggle.

Just jiving my brutha.  Much luv black man!  You deserve it more than anyone I know.  Sorry I won't be there but I will always wonder if the "food chairs" was warm around twelve.

Will you be having strippers like in the old days or are all your old and tired lawyer braz bringing their menopausal heffaz to kill any possible buzz?

Whatever, we move in different circles now but I still owe you a "house warm" present.  And have just the thing.

A double voucher for a massage at one of those Thai establishments where you can have a happy ending ;0)

And if you like it ... have another one whenever you want cause it is a double voucher.

Don't mention it bra.  You are welcome.  Please just don't marry the massage woman like a few of your bushy braz have.

Not necessary bra.  A happy ending will be had by all including you.  Think STDs though and take cover with ya!

Enjoy your new house boet.  And marry a nice sista and settle your ass down.  You can't be an asexual friend to all your lawyer boyz' wives forever.  For real Truman Prince.  Get a sista who luvs yo' black ass for who you are (whoever that may be now).

But for now Guru, you my coloured brutha and I'm proud of you man.  Now go find a real sista that sees you like so:

Onward!

PS. I'm out of commission folks.  Done here and there.

No end in sight for Uncle Rupert.

I know that I said I would stop bashing FOX NEWS in my posts, but I lied.

Here is a shock, Bill O-Liely is actually sticking up for his Uncle Rupert in these scandals that are rocking the News Corp Empire. Bill seems to think that this is much ado about nothing, and that it is a left wing media "witch hunt" to get to those pillars of virtue over at FOX.

In fact, wingnut central is hardly covering the scandal. But fortunately, the rest of A-merry-ca is starting to take notice.

"You have the New York Times absolutely running wild with the story," he said. "Front page, front page, front page. Column, column, column. Vicious stuff, vicious stuff. And it's all ideological, is it not?"

Bill, they are only "running wild" because it is a big story. Folks, can you imagine if we were talking about Ted Turner or George Soros and not Uncle Rupert? You would see more BREAKING NEWS headlines on FOX than dumb blondes and jigging Negroes.

The folks over at FOX are praying that this scandal will go away, but it won't. I suspect that the stuff going on across the pond is just the tip of a very large iceberg. I hope that we can finally rid ourselves of this scumbag and his evil corporation. Money can buy you a lot, but it can't hide the truth.

Oh, and speaking of scumbag:

"Glenn Beck laughed about the death of a whistleblower involved in the phone hacking scandal and asked listeners to "pray" that Fox News was not involved in the crisis.

On his Tuesday show, Beck joked about the death of Sean Hoare, who was the first journalist to go on the record about the phone-hacking crisis at the News of the World in a 2010 New York Times article. Hoare was found dead in his London home on Monday. Beck said he loved the story of the death.
"I'm not saying that foul play was involved, but it is suspicious that he's dead," Beck said, laughing. (On Tuesday, police categorically concluded that no third party was involved in Hoare's death.)

He then joked that Vladimir Putin was involved in the death, before turning to Fox News, which, like the News of the World, is owned by News Corp.
Beck said he was worried that the scandal would be used by opponents of Fox News to try and bring it down, but that, as far as he knew, there had never been a hint of a scandal at the network.

"Pray that that is so and that they are thwarted," Beck said. "...They will use this and it will shut down."' [Source]

Yes Glenn, I will be praying for FOX NEWS, but I don't think you would like to hear what I will be telling the big guy.

New Statesman Interview with Norman Finkelstein

By John Bernstein
New Statesman
July 14, 2011

Norman Finkelstein  (Credit: Mark Mahaney)

In your view, Israel has appropriated the Holocaust. Could a non-Jew have said that?
There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in The Holocaust Industry without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too. Nobody disputes that my parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1939 to 1943. If I were denying the Holocaust, I would have to be certifiably insane.

Your parents went to the US after the war. Did they consider going to Israel?
My mother used to joke sometimes because the Judenräte, the Jewish councils, played such a filthy role during the Nazi Holocaust that, when asked "Why didn't you go to Israel?", she said: "I'd had enough with Jewish leaders."

Is there anything you'd like to forget?
I did a lot of wrong things, morally wrong, personally wrong. I made major political errors in my life. But I don't want to forget them, because they put me on notice.

Is there a plan?
It's too late to speak of a plan - I'm 57 years old.

Do you vote?
I don't. I understand the rational argument for voting, but . . . I can't stand these people. I could never vote for Barack Obama.

Why not?
Because I think it's all hollow clichés and platitudes. I can't bear it. He's a complete fraud.

He's brought health care to millions.
I'm unemployed and one of those 40 million Americans who has no health insurance, so I know all about insurance that I can't afford.

Are we all doomed?
I don't think in such big terms.

Do you believe in God?
No. When I was a young man, my mother said to me, "You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist." So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

Defining Moments
1953 Born in New York City
1988 Receives doctorate from Princeton University's department of politics
2000 Publishes The Holocaust Industry
2003 Accuses Professor Alan Dershowitz of plagiarism in writing The Case for Israel
2007 A vote by DePaul University's faculty board denies Finkelstein tenure
2008 Is denied entry to Israel
2010 Publishes This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion

Read the entire interview here.  And see his personal website here.

Comment: A formidable intellectual and an academic who once described himself as the oldest and most prolific assistant professor in the American academy.

It does not take much to see why American universities would want to rid themselves of thinkers like Finkelstein.  He threatens their very make-up.

He contests the very mainstream notion of what they consider legitimate discourse and knowledge production.  He is not in the business of kissing the ass of the establishment and the systems that reproduce it in a Gramscian sense (making oppression and its delegitimizing effects "commonsense" or normal).

I like that he does not vote and thinks that Obama is a fraud.  I was thinking about fraud and politics and ass kissers this morning when I read the front page of a local newspaper that was decked with birthday wishes for Mandela.

People who have arrived in the post-era and want to be seen as confirming Mandela as their personal savior.  One white man even went as far as to say that for the first three decades of his life he was ashamed of being white!

And now?  I guess Mandela and Obama have opened spaces for white people not to be ashamed of being white and part of a structured system that still keeps the too many oppressed and devalued.

And why is that so few of those who were "ashamed" in the old era were nowhere near the liberation struggle?  Why is it now fashionable to ride motorcycles across the country and get all teary eyed about Mandela?

This is bullsh*t posturing.  Prankster politics at most.  These aren't thinking folks.  And they vote too.  If the old system was still in place they would abhor the terrorist Mandela and ride across country to raise funds for this or that safe cause.  Perhaps something radical like finding a cure for myopia and not the political kind for sure.

Finkelstein is honest enough to admit mistakes.  Personal and political ones too.  Admirable.

To speak these truths is to contest the very legitimacy of the systems that prop up the liberatory myths like those of Obama and Mandela.

Those who stand and contest the very essence of any political system, inclusive of its manufactured "commonsense", cannot expect to be celebrated and made credible by the same system.

That is why such opposition is so revolutionary.  And I expect that Finkelstein knows this very well.

Onward!

Now it's child that kills parents in Florida, the wingnuts vote to destroy America, and Michele is color aroused.

What the hell is in the water down there in Florida? If you are a parent in Florida you might want to keep an eye on your children. 

I was reading about that kid that killed both of his parents and then threw a house party, and I kept thinking about the sad irony of it in relation to the Casey Anthony story.

Here, yet another child kills his parents  down there and this time he (allegedly) throws a party with a bunch of his friends while their bodies was sitting in a bedroom in the house. Sick. And most of you believe that Casey Anthony did the same thing to her child. So instead of the parent killing the child, it's the child killing the parents this time. Either way, it's all pretty f%$#!d up.

I see that that the wingnuts down in D.C. voted to push through a ridiculous-- dead on arrival-- deficit reduction bill, today. Nice. Cut federal spending by six trillion dollars? I don't think so.

"Let me be clear. This is the compromise. This is the best plan out there," said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, head of a conservative group inside the House known as the Republican Study Committee.

The legislation, dubbed "Cut, Cap and Balance" by supporters, would make an estimated $111 billion in immediate reductions and ensure that overall spending declined in the future in relation to the overall size of the economy.

It also would require both houses of Congress to approve a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution and send it to the states for ratification."

Let's hope that there are some grown ups in the senate and that they can find some type of compromise. Those wingnuts are...well, nuts!

Finally, I see that Michele Bachmann is blaming the black man for the problems surrounding the floods in the Midwest. ( I swear we get blamed for everything.) It's a smart political move. It should help to unify her base around a common theme: bigotry.