Satire and its politix: rulers, beliefs, actions, folks,
Events, bastards, bitches? Tokes
Can rhyme or blend with urban beat.
Read aloud? Leap to your feet!
Def jelled, couplets, limericks
About the news that MAKES ME SICK!
Being HEARD's what makes me tick
And it's YOU can help me DO IT!
These blues can add "quickies" to your menu
(something borrowed, something blue)
And I'm prolific too!
Posting far and wide, I do
Ten, twelve a week, so if you wish
I'll focus here when I gotta dish.
Above is my "application" to Eric Olson to join Blogcritics; I couldn't log in on the "join" site. Thx.
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Marianela
Jun 06, 2005 at 9:40 am
Havana, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) The 4th International Congress on Culture and Development begins Monday in this capital, with the attendance of some 500 national and foreign figures.
The aim of the event, to run until June 9 at Havana´s International Conference Center, is to analyze cultural policies, diversity and heritage.
The forum will be divided into six professional groups, in which attendees will analyze folklore, popular culture, neoliberal domination, diversity, gender, race and minorities, as well as the role of heritage and culture regarding tourism.
Foreign figures attending the meeting include US actor Danny Glover and political scientist James Cockcroft, Italian novelist Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Venezuelan narrator Luis Brito and Brazilian actress Leticia Spiller, among others.
Among the Cubans are Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Lisandro Otero, Marta Arjona, Miguel Barnet, Julio Garcia Espinosa, Reynaldo González, Eduardo Heras, Eusebio Leal, Rogelio Martinez Fure, Eliades Acosta and Desiderio Navarro.
The International Congress on Culture and Development comes from a document signed in Mexico in 2003, which called for reflection on problems related to survival of the human species and its culture.
Any chance we could arrange for Danny Glover to stay there?
Dave
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Nancy
Jun 06, 2005 at 10:07 am
Politics is (are?) loathesome, yet fascinating, like a snake. Probably because they affect us all. Or maybe it's just the politicians that are loathesome. I think it's most important to have a clean and honest government. To that end, IMO lobbying should be completely eliminated. No lobbyists, no influence-peddling. That's a start. Make the rules totally strict: NO gifts, nothing paid for under any circumstances, for either an incumbent or his/her staff - not food, travel, seminars, nothing, nada, zip. Pretty hard to 'misunderstand' or 'confuse' those rules, as some current incumbents are claiming, what? No relatives on payroll of the incumbent or anyone even remotely connected to the incumbent, including fellow incumbents. Accusations of violations may be made by any citizen or group of citizens, through an independent ethical oversight committee which will vet said accusations for validity before presenting same to an independent prosecuter's office which handles only political chicanery charges. Congress will NOT be left to police itself, which makes a farce of every standard of justice and common sense known to humanity. Plain language will be used: lying will not be called 'mis-speaking' or any other smoothed over, watered down euphamism, etc. And the penalties for violations should be tough enough and humiliating enough to make it painful enough to deter any of these people from even thinking about straying from the straight and narrow: perhaps being paraded naked thru the city in portable stocks or at the cart's tail, and their name posted throughout the nation on TV labelled "liar" or "thief" or whatever is appropriate, followed by disbarment from ever holding public office or a public job again. Draconian? perhaps. Needed? obviously. Warranted? beyond question.
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HW Saxton
Jun 16, 2005 at 1:27 pm
I'm in a kind of sad stupor this morning
about the war in Iraq.It was brought to
me in a very personal way last night.
I flipped on the Evening news and a good
friend of mine who I've known for many
years was the latest casualty in Iraq.
His name was Stanley Lupinski and he was
killed in a roadside bombing. I couldn't
believe it.It left me in such a state of
shock.Last night,when I found out,it did
not seem real. But when I woke up this
morning to see his name flash across my
TV screen on CNN, it made me break down
in tears. I could not hold them back if
I tried.I'd seen him last,in the fall of
2004 when he was home on leave.I never
once thought it would be the last time.
The next time I see him it will be at
his funeral this weekend.I'm devastated.
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Nancy
Jun 16, 2005 at 2:35 pm
Very sorry. Not that words can do much to help ease the pain.
A simple joke does not equal satire whether funny or not. Satire has a much finer tradition.
Please if you are going to post a satire piece it needs to be given the Culture: Satire subcategory.
Also there is a place for those short almost thoughts that should not be separate posts at blogcritics. That place is the open comments thread under each section - http://www.blogcritics.org/culture / music / books etc.
Thank you. Temple
34 -
Stan
Jul 14, 2005 at 8:13 pm
the coordination between left wing fund raising organizations, the network reporters, and left wing congressmen is truly revolting.
35 -
Anthony Grande
Jul 16, 2005 at 5:02 pm
I am a Italian Mafia expert and I know as a fact that many Democrats take bribes and favors from the mafia.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Story of Stanley Williams, I encourage you to view the movie made about his life called Redemption and to visit his Tookie.com. Stanley is currently awaiting execution on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison.
Let me first say that I am a firm supporter of the Death Penalty. But one cannot read the story of Stanley Williams and not question whether or not it would be better for him to continue his work in prison rather than be put to death.Read More...
Even if you are not a baby boomer what happened in the Kennedy White House still matters--I don't mean just the fooling around.
Seriously, here is a press release from today August 25 of newly declassified tapes:
The timing is interesting and so is the subject: China and India. I heard on NPR just today that these two countries together make up one-third of mankind.
More tapes will be declassified but for researchers and political watchers check out the timeliness of these tapes.
I think I've stumbled across another BlogCritics mental asylum here. Why do the crazy people all gravitate toward the general threads?
That is all.
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Liberal
Aug 25, 2005 at 9:18 pm
"Politics for Dummies?"
Is that Rick Santorum's autobiography? Check out the part about the man/dog sex.
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D.C.
Aug 27, 2005 at 4:06 am
Yeah. Thats Santorums book. He wrote it to help goofy dummys like you. Go watch your Daily Show as John Stewart strains for a laugh easing up in his chair like he is constapated. Thats the best part of his show. When he strains for a laugh so his audience gives him one.
43 -
with karate ill kik ur ass
Sep 02, 2005 at 10:40 am
could some 1 tell me what groups are right wing ang left wing and if they r the same as the british 1's coz its kinda confusing.
In the US, right and left have nothing to do with which side of the House (Parliament) your guy sits on, that's why it's confusing to Brits.
Rule of thumb:
argues against Bush = left
argues against ACLU = right
argues with self = moderate
[grin]
45 -
with karate ill kik ur ass
Sep 02, 2005 at 11:20 am
.......right
46 -
Steve
Sep 02, 2005 at 8:43 pm
Re. comment 43,
The US Democrats are like the Labour party (UK), the US Republicans are like the Tories (UK). There is no party like the Liberals (UK), though moderates from both Reps. and Dems. and the tiny number of Independents currently elected might fit with the UK Libs. on at least some social/political issues. Though I grew up mostly in Scotland, I'm Canadian myself, but it took me a while to understand Canadian politics!
47 -
Jerry Vilhotti
Sep 13, 2005 at 1:46 pm
If no one is responsible and no one willing to accept fault - human errors that are occurring all about us thanks to Katrina and Iraq will continue to be repeated and many more innocent lives will be sacrificed to the gods of greed, power and indifference. Speak about dumber, dumber and dumber! Where indeed did native intelligence go? Jerry V. ....
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Jerry Vilhotti
Sep 24, 2005 at 7:09 am
What if the divided states of America unites in this idea: people decide that since gas is going to go up to around $6 dollars a gallon - they did not rive their vehicles nor go to work for a few weeks would the profiteers then finally get a heart and slash their billions of dollars of profits to perhaps half and cut profits to let's say half and or our "leaders" put a freeze on the gougers and say - enough all ready!
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Tinman
Sep 29, 2005 at 7:43 pm
How about a nation wide boycott of Carnival Cruise Lines. Here is corporation with ship registry outside the USA taking advantage of FEMA, and us, do to the problems in New Orleans. Let them enjoy their six month contract, then enjoy the outrage of the American tax payer through a 12 month boycott.
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Cardinal47
Oct 04, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Do Snow Birds going to Florida need to arm themselves?
Shoot First, ask Questions Later?
Florida's new Shoot First law exemplifies the power of the National Rifle Association which knows no shame in its pursuit of the right to bear arms anytime, anywhere for any purpose.For a good discussion of the gun control issue in the U.S., read Richard North Patterson's Balance of Power
Florida's "stand your ground" law, which took effect Saturday, means that people no longer must attempt to retreat or defuse a threatening situation before using violence in order to later claim they were acting in self-defence. People already had that right in their homes, but the law now allows them to meet "force with force" in any place they have a legal right to be.
The right does not apply if the person is confronted by a law-enforcement officer.
Proponents of the measure, pushed by the National Rifle Association, say it will make Florida a safer place, not more dangerous.
Governor Jeb Bush has repeatedly pointed to a 34-year low in state crime statistics to demonstrate that Florida is not a haven for violence.
"It's pure, unadulterated politics," Mr. Bush said last week of the Brady Campaign's tactics. "Shame on them."
The Florida tourism industry, however, is taking the campaign seriously, with Visit Florida " the state's official tourism-marketing arm " issuing a statement calling Florida "a very safe and secure destination that excels in caring for its visitors."
"We believe that Americans and international visitors are smart enough to understand that the Brady Campaign is one group's political agenda and not a real safety issue," the statement said.
Florida greets more than one million visitors on any given day, with nearly 80 million tourists visiting the state in 2004, Visit Florida said.
The Brady Campaign leaflets, which the group intends to hand out for about a month at the Miami and Orlando airports, call the measure the "Shoot First" law and urge people to "take sensible precautions" while visiting the state.
"There is no other state in the nation " and no other civilized nation on Earth " that has a law like this," Brady Campaign spokesman Peter Hamm said. "It could cause the most aggressive people in society to overreact."
The group also has taken out ads in major Detroit, Chicago, Boston and London newspapers about the new Florida law.
Several people who got the leaflets at the Miami airport on Monday appeared taken aback by the new law.
"It's a little scary," said Melissa Vosberg, on her way home to the Chicago area after a cruise in the Bahamas. "It's 'shoot first, ask about it later."'
Ann/Phil: A dumb question perhaps but I'm full of those this week...
When I write the media reality check pieces I want you to have time to edit it - cause God knows I'm not perfect - but I also consider them more timely in nature than some other posts I wrote like book reviews?
What's the best way to let editors know it's ready without being pushy?
Is an email to an editor(s) appropriate? I just want to avoid it getting stale.
Please advise and thanks for the past, current and future editing help.
We try to edit and publish all articles the day they're posted, but generally get to them on a first-in, first-out basis. I don't think an email would really help.
Some palm trees were recently installed very close to the edge of cloverleaf offramp in Oceanside. Shortly after I first noticed them I saw that one of them had been knocked over. Fortunately they had not firmly take root, so there's a chance that the hapless driver might not have been killed.
This got me to thinking. There must be millions of such trees installed all over the country. So I'm sure there must be an occasional fatality, that wouldn't have happened if they had not been there to collide with. So as a society we are willing to accept this risk, the only benefit of which (other than some nursery company's profit) is the esthetic pleasure of having a decorative landscape to look at while driving.
This got me to thinking further. Of the millions of people who have taken Ephedra, there is some (inconclusive) suspicion that one or two such users may have died from ingesting that particular herbal supplement. Immediately the FDA pounces and imposes a nationwide ban. Every person who used it was willing to take the (infinitessimal) risk, not for some abstract esthetic benefit, but because they were convinced that doing so would benefit their health.
So think about the contrast here. The first time someone crashed into a tree, did the government immediately require that all such trees be removed? And if not, why not? There is certainly considerably more justification to remove the trees than there is to ban Ephedra - for two reasons: first, the connection between hitting the tree and being killed is undeniable, in contrast to the deaths supposedly attributable to taking Ephedra; and second, removing the trees, and replacing them with some less lethal decorative landscaping, would deprive no one of anything that they could object to, while banning Ephedra deprives millions of people of something they might very well strenuously object to not being able to obtain.
I smell a rat somewhere, and I'm pretty sure that rat is the pharmaceutical industry, using well meaning but stupid liberals who think that the government's job is to constantly chase the chimera of a completely risk free existence - and by doing so eliminate a small negative (MAYBE preventing a very small number of people from dying of an Ephedra overdose) while at the same time creating a very large negative (adversely impacting the health of millions benefitting from the proper usage of that particular herb - thereby making it less likely that they will get sick and need to purchase drugs).
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It doesn't matter
Nov 16, 2005 at 6:19 pm
I am not surprise that African Artists that performed and was the best of whole show still does not get a credit or recognition.Soukousstar did very well and i never saw a clip of them or a picure saying they won a ward or something.Maybe i am not looking at the right place,so please correct me if i am wrong but, this is a bout Jaimaicans and Caribians show not international?
Why America should get out of Iraq / they will betray us
Iraq will become another Iran. It does not matter how much money we spend. It does not matter how many people will send over there to die. There is nothing we can do to stop it. People of Iraq will betray us. Just as Kuwait will someday. An anti-American movement has been growing fast in Kuwait. Muslim extremists could someday be in power in Kuwait.
Shi´ites and the Kurds, are both pro-Iranian. Three of the most powerful figures in the Iraq government, Shi´ite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani all received military backing and shelter from Iran during Saddam´s rule. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'fari, lived for years in exile in Iran. Iraqi Ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Sheikh has called for expansion of current ties with Iran. All of Iraq´s great clerical leaders have been Iranian or studied in Iran. There has been a large-scale return of Iranian pilgrims to Shi´ite holy sites in the Iraqi cities of Najaf, Karbala, Baghdad and Samarra. The Iraq government voted to oust from Iraq the Mujahideen Khalq, an Iraq-based Iranian guerrilla group opposed to Tehran´s clerical regime. Iran and Iraq have also set up a committee to study linking the two countries´ oil, gas and electricity networks, which could be the first step towards turning the two nations into one.
Muqtada Al-Sadr
Saddam City, as it was known before the fall of the regime, was renamed Al-Sadr City. Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani praised Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Sadriyun Movement. Muqtada Al-Sadr , or someone like him will one day become President of Iraq. One day the people of Iraq will vote to turn Iraq into a Shiite - dominated Islamic republic just like Iran.
And there is nothing the United States can do to stop this.WHY?
This is what the people of Iraq want. They want to trunk Iraq into a Shiite - dominated Islamic republic just like Iran. The United States can not force or give our idea of freedom to Iraq. No one gave the United States our freedom. The people of the United States had to fight and die for our freedom. The people of Iraq will have to fight and die for the freedom of Iraq. There has to be a change in Arab society and culture. And this has not happen yet. The people of Iraq and the people of the Arab world have to pay the price for freedom.
(This is the price of freedom: Your every drop of courage, ounce of pain, pint of blood. Paid in advance.)
- Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
reading about the race riots in in australia,they claim to be be the great melting pot. no racism racism here. they treated the aborigines
as lower class citizens for a long long time and probably still do
Iraq will betray us. Just as Kuwait will someday. An anti-American movement has been growing fast in Kuwait. Muslim extremists could someday be in power in Kuwait.
I agree 100%. Iraq has been a huge waste of American money and blood. Treachery has always been Islam's SOP, and always will be. The American Muslims are no different than the Iraqi or Kuwaiti ones. They will turn on us too, as soon as their numbers have grown sufficiently large.
We should be concentrating on getting the enemy out of our own midst. America and Europe had better start expelling them before the threat of Islamicization gets even worse than it already is.
There are currently 6 million in the U.S. The hundreds of billions wasted in Iraq could have been put to so much better use paying a hundred thousand dollars a head for every Muslim in the country to relocate elsewhere.
When Palestine was ethnically cleased of Jews we didn't hear any cries of "Xenophobia! Racism! Ethinic hatred!" did we? So let the same hypocrites keep their fucking mouths shut while the Muslims are ejected from the United States, Britain, France, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.
Do it now, or be prepared for costs and body counts that will dwarf to insignificance those we've experienced in Iraq. Learn the lesson of Katrina, spend a hundred million beefing up the levies, or spend hundreds of billions rebuilding after the disaster for which we will be unprepared.
No. More anti-Islam hatred. Big difference. I'm not calling for extermination, like Hitler did with the Jews. I don't hate individual Muslims. I feel sorry for Westerners who get sucked in as converts, as well as for those born into Islam who can't get out of it without risking a Koranic death sentence.
I favor a policy of starting with a lower bribe, say $20,000 that would thin out those who have the least desire to be living here. Then raising the ante to the point where Muslim ranks are pared down to some manageable fraction of a percentage point of the total population - along, of course, with a complete ban on any further Muslim immigration.
Just having an official policy that says "You are not wanted here" would go a long way toward encouraging many to leave, thereby reducing the possibility that through continued immigration and a high birth rate, the 50% mark could be reached. For at that critical point Muslims could and would use democracy to destroy democracy by voting away whatever laws and constitutional protections might be standing in the way of their dream of turning the United States into a caliphate governed by Sharia Law - which of course would ignite an apocalyptic civil war such as the world has never seen before.
Aaman, Noanchorbabies does not have an unreasonable proposal. Something very similar to it was in force in the US from 1922 to 1965. Jews, wops and wogs were unwelcome. That is why my cousin had to go to La Habana, Cuba with her husband when she left Poland in 1928, instead of New York. She didn't make it to the US until 1955. She shoulda gone to Eretz Yisrael straightaway, but I digress.
Foreigners don't get protected under the US constitution.
The only problem with his solution, Aaman, is that it is two decades too late. Moslems have enough of a minority in the US to raise an awful stink if his policy were proposed, and an even bigger one were it passed.
And the liberal Jews there, ever attempting to put someone on the "up for slaughter and persecution list" in front of them, would be backing the Moslems all the way.
The figure 6 million needs to be understood in light of the fact that 3 million of those are black "muslims".
The true muslims are always trying to inflate these numbers. On the one hand Farakhan's bunch are rejected as being completely unacceptable doctrinally, and yet they always include them in their head count!!!
Actually Elijah Muhammed's followers are a considerably more benign group that I don't worry about, unconnected to the more virulent Middle Eastern based strains.
And many of the remainder are converts still partially infected with Judaeo-Christian value baggage, who can't quite stomach things such as adultery stoning, honor killing, humanless art, the ban against women being heard speaking in public or, Allah forbid, singing, etc.
So maybe we're not really a full two decades too late. And how many years late do you consider TOO late, anyway?
Well, bearing in mind that you would still have the limousine liberals and the ACLU protecting them, I would still say that you are two decades too late. More based on the size of the stink that they would raise. THEY would cite 6 million Moslems and the good boys at ABC, CBS, NPR and the AP would repeat their lies, just like they repeat the other lies the Arabs feed them.
You get the idea. A guppy turned into a blowfish.
And don't ever underestimate the enthusiasm of a convert. You should hear some of what the Jewish converts here say about the Christianity they've left...
It's a daunting fight - but you are welcome to it. Start those phone trees going.
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Mario G. Nitrini 111
Jan 03, 2006 at 6:15 pm
The OJ Simpson Case:
subject: Michael Hahn, Kim Goldman, Fred Goldman, Me (Mario), MORE AND The OJ Simpson Case
This is Michael Hahn's (Kim Goldman's Husband) "FIRST E-MAIL" to Me. There was MORE in this "FIRST E-MAIL" that Michael Hahn Sent to me, but some of it I WILL NOT DIVULDGE, FOR REASONS:
Here is some of it,
Dated Monday, December 12th, 2005 at 9:20 AM.
in Michael Hahn's OWN WORDS,
Sent To Me, Mario G. Nitrini 111:
"Dear Sir,
I made the unfortunate mistake of marring Kim Goldman in 2001
and am now involved in a brutal divorce case trying to salvage the right to see my Son and retain any money that is owed me.
New Paragraph:
I have seen your posts were you publicly state your negative opinions
about Fred and Kim Goldman and am interested in any information you can offer me.
New Paragraph:
I am trying to get my Son away from those awful people and anything that would be helpful I would appreciate very much.
New Paragraph:
Fred Goldman, his daughter and their circle of friends are despicable people, I will do everything in my power to destroy them.
Please contact me, I look forward to talking with you.
Michael Hahn"
____________________________
Michael Hahn says he's Involved in a "BRUTAL DIVORCE CASE." So, according to Michael Hahn, he wants to retain ANY "MONEY" $$$$$$$$$$$$ that is owed him. According to Michael Hahn, he is trying to "SALVAGE" the Right to see his son.
WHO??? is Michael Hahn Referring to in Being Fred Goldman and Kim Goldman's "CIRCLE OF FRIENDS"??????
Michael Hahn says he is trying to get his son away from these AWFUL PEOPLE. WOW!!!!!!!!!
________________________________
I broke this "FIRST" E-Mail up that Michael Hahn sent to me SO NO ONE CAN FORGE ANYTHING.
I have The ORIGINAL E-MAILS that Michael Hahn sent to me in 3 Safe Places where ONLY MYSELF and a Few People can get to them, FOR REASONS!!!!!!! They are ALSO Posted Securely.
Check me if I'm Wrong, but I have heard "NOTHING" in The Media about this, NOTHING. Is this ANOTHER COVER-UP with a Connection to The OJ Simpson Case?????? SURE LOOKS LIKE IT TO ME.
Mario, if you must post these long stories, please try to make them more organised and understandable. Thanks.
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Mario G. Nitrini 111
Jan 03, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Christopher,
I wasn't thinking.
I was/and still am Personally Involved in The OJ Simpson Case, and Cases that it Touches.
Michael Hahn, Kim Goldman Hahn's, I suppose now it's Estranged Husband, sent me this First E-mail on December 12th 2005. It's the one I Posted here on Blogcritics a few hours ago.
I will tell you this Christopher, THERE ARE Legal Happenings other than this Kim Goldman Hahn/ Michael Hahn Divorce Proceeding connected to The OJ Simpson Case, BIG TIME.
Mario G. Nitrini 111
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Mario G. Nitrini 111
Jan 04, 2006 at 10:46 am
MORE, with The OJ Simpson Case.
This is an E-mail I received from Aphrodite Jones:
"Mario --
I will look at your website and would like to talk with you after the holidays.
Perhaps there's some format of TV we can bring this explosive information to. I will check with FOX news and NBC news to see if there's interest.
Thanks for writing --
Sincerely --
Aphrodite"
_______________________________________
Mario G. Nitrini 111
[Mario, please leave out all the formatting stuff such as I have removed if you post here again. Comments Editor]
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Mario G. Nitrini 111
Jan 04, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Comment Editor,
Why have you Deleted some of what I've said. I have said "NOTHING" Objectionable.
Mario G. Nitrini 111
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— go to most recent comments26 - pamrose
Satire and its politix: rulers, beliefs, actions, folks,
Events, bastards, bitches? Tokes
Can rhyme or blend with urban beat.
Read aloud? Leap to your feet!
Def jelled, couplets, limericks
About the news that MAKES ME SICK!
Being HEARD's what makes me tick
And it's YOU can help me DO IT!
These blues can add "quickies" to your menu
(something borrowed, something blue)
And I'm prolific too!
Posting far and wide, I do
Ten, twelve a week, so if you wish
I'll focus here when I gotta dish.
27 - pamrose
Above is my "application" to Eric Olson to join Blogcritics; I couldn't log in on the "join" site. Thx.
28 - Marianela
Havana, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) The 4th International Congress on Culture and Development begins Monday in this capital, with the attendance of some 500 national and foreign figures.
The aim of the event, to run until June 9 at Havana´s International Conference Center, is to analyze cultural policies, diversity and heritage.
The forum will be divided into six professional groups, in which attendees will analyze folklore, popular culture, neoliberal domination, diversity, gender, race and minorities, as well as the role of heritage and culture regarding tourism.
Foreign figures attending the meeting include US actor Danny Glover and political scientist James Cockcroft, Italian novelist Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Venezuelan narrator Luis Brito and Brazilian actress Leticia Spiller, among others.
Among the Cubans are Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Lisandro Otero, Marta Arjona, Miguel Barnet, Julio Garcia Espinosa, Reynaldo González, Eduardo Heras, Eusebio Leal, Rogelio Martinez Fure, Eliades Acosta and Desiderio Navarro.
The International Congress on Culture and Development comes from a document signed in Mexico in 2003, which called for reflection on problems related to survival of the human species and its culture.
29 - Dave Nalle
Any chance we could arrange for Danny Glover to stay there?
Dave
30 - Nancy
Politics is (are?) loathesome, yet fascinating, like a snake. Probably because they affect us all. Or maybe it's just the politicians that are loathesome. I think it's most important to have a clean and honest government. To that end, IMO lobbying should be completely eliminated. No lobbyists, no influence-peddling. That's a start. Make the rules totally strict: NO gifts, nothing paid for under any circumstances, for either an incumbent or his/her staff - not food, travel, seminars, nothing, nada, zip. Pretty hard to 'misunderstand' or 'confuse' those rules, as some current incumbents are claiming, what? No relatives on payroll of the incumbent or anyone even remotely connected to the incumbent, including fellow incumbents. Accusations of violations may be made by any citizen or group of citizens, through an independent ethical oversight committee which will vet said accusations for validity before presenting same to an independent prosecuter's office which handles only political chicanery charges. Congress will NOT be left to police itself, which makes a farce of every standard of justice and common sense known to humanity. Plain language will be used: lying will not be called 'mis-speaking' or any other smoothed over, watered down euphamism, etc. And the penalties for violations should be tough enough and humiliating enough to make it painful enough to deter any of these people from even thinking about straying from the straight and narrow: perhaps being paraded naked thru the city in portable stocks or at the cart's tail, and their name posted throughout the nation on TV labelled "liar" or "thief" or whatever is appropriate, followed by disbarment from ever holding public office or a public job again. Draconian? perhaps. Needed? obviously. Warranted? beyond question.
31 - HW Saxton
I'm in a kind of sad stupor this morning
about the war in Iraq.It was brought to
me in a very personal way last night.
I flipped on the Evening news and a good
friend of mine who I've known for many
years was the latest casualty in Iraq.
His name was Stanley Lupinski and he was
killed in a roadside bombing. I couldn't
believe it.It left me in such a state of
shock.Last night,when I found out,it did
not seem real. But when I woke up this
morning to see his name flash across my
TV screen on CNN, it made me break down
in tears. I could not hold them back if
I tried.I'd seen him last,in the fall of
2004 when he was home on leave.I never
once thought it would be the last time.
The next time I see him it will be at
his funeral this weekend.I'm devastated.
32 - Nancy
Very sorry. Not that words can do much to help ease the pain.
33 - Temple Stark
A simple joke does not equal satire whether funny or not. Satire has a much finer tradition.
Please if you are going to post a satire piece it needs to be given the Culture: Satire subcategory.
Also there is a place for those short almost thoughts that should not be separate posts at blogcritics. That place is the open comments thread under each section - http://www.blogcritics.org/culture / music / books etc.
Thank you. Temple
34 - Stan
the coordination between left wing fund raising organizations, the network reporters, and left wing congressmen is truly revolting.
35 - Anthony Grande
I am a Italian Mafia expert and I know as a fact that many Democrats take bribes and favors from the mafia.
36 - Temple Stark
Hmm - Novak apologists seen his "I admit" column today?
LINK
37 - The Home of Uncommon Sense
A Case for Clemency...Should Tookie Live?
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Story of Stanley Williams, I encourage you to view the movie made about his life called Redemption and to visit his Tookie.com. Stanley is currently awaiting execution on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison.
Let me first say that I am a firm supporter of the Death Penalty. But one cannot read the story of Stanley Williams and not question whether or not it would be better for him to continue his work in prison rather than be put to death.Read More...
38 - Aaman
Have you seen the blog of the Libertarian party? It's more press-releases than blog-posts, but still...
39 - Heloise
Even if you are not a baby boomer what happened in the Kennedy White House still matters--I don't mean just the fooling around.
Seriously, here is a press release from today August 25 of newly declassified tapes:
The timing is interesting and so is the subject: China and India. I heard on NPR just today that these two countries together make up one-third of mankind.
More tapes will be declassified but for researchers and political watchers check out the timeliness of these tapes.
Heloise
40 - Bob A. Booey
I think I've stumbled across another BlogCritics mental asylum here. Why do the crazy people all gravitate toward the general threads?
That is all.
41 - Liberal
"Politics for Dummies?"
Is that Rick Santorum's autobiography? Check out the part about the man/dog sex.
42 - D.C.
Yeah. Thats Santorums book. He wrote it to help goofy dummys like you. Go watch your Daily Show as John Stewart strains for a laugh easing up in his chair like he is constapated. Thats the best part of his show. When he strains for a laugh so his audience gives him one.
43 - with karate ill kik ur ass
could some 1 tell me what groups are right wing ang left wing and if they r the same as the british 1's coz its kinda confusing.
44 - DrPat
In the US, right and left have nothing to do with which side of the House (Parliament) your guy sits on, that's why it's confusing to Brits.
Rule of thumb:
[grin]
45 - with karate ill kik ur ass
.......right
46 - Steve
Re. comment 43,
The US Democrats are like the Labour party (UK), the US Republicans are like the Tories (UK). There is no party like the Liberals (UK), though moderates from both Reps. and Dems. and the tiny number of Independents currently elected might fit with the UK Libs. on at least some social/political issues. Though I grew up mostly in Scotland, I'm Canadian myself, but it took me a while to understand Canadian politics!
47 - Jerry Vilhotti
If no one is responsible and no one willing to accept fault - human errors that are occurring all about us thanks to Katrina and Iraq will continue to be repeated and many more innocent lives will be sacrificed to the gods of greed, power and indifference. Speak about dumber, dumber and dumber! Where indeed did native intelligence go? Jerry V. ....
48 - Jerry Vilhotti
What if the divided states of America unites in this idea: people decide that since gas is going to go up to around $6 dollars a gallon - they did not rive their vehicles nor go to work for a few weeks would the profiteers then finally get a heart and slash their billions of dollars of profits to perhaps half and cut profits to let's say half and or our "leaders" put a freeze on the gougers and say - enough all ready!
49 - Tinman
How about a nation wide boycott of Carnival Cruise Lines. Here is corporation with ship registry outside the USA taking advantage of FEMA, and us, do to the problems in New Orleans. Let them enjoy their six month contract, then enjoy the outrage of the American tax payer through a 12 month boycott.
50 - Cardinal47
Do Snow Birds going to Florida need to arm themselves?
Shoot First, ask Questions Later?
Florida's new Shoot First law exemplifies the power of the National Rifle Association which knows no shame in its pursuit of the right to bear arms anytime, anywhere for any purpose.For a good discussion of the gun control issue in the U.S., read Richard North Patterson's Balance of Power
Florida's "stand your ground" law, which took effect Saturday, means that people no longer must attempt to retreat or defuse a threatening situation before using violence in order to later claim they were acting in self-defence. People already had that right in their homes, but the law now allows them to meet "force with force" in any place they have a legal right to be.
The right does not apply if the person is confronted by a law-enforcement officer.
Proponents of the measure, pushed by the National Rifle Association, say it will make Florida a safer place, not more dangerous.
Governor Jeb Bush has repeatedly pointed to a 34-year low in state crime statistics to demonstrate that Florida is not a haven for violence.
"It's pure, unadulterated politics," Mr. Bush said last week of the Brady Campaign's tactics. "Shame on them."
The Florida tourism industry, however, is taking the campaign seriously, with Visit Florida " the state's official tourism-marketing arm " issuing a statement calling Florida "a very safe and secure destination that excels in caring for its visitors."
"We believe that Americans and international visitors are smart enough to understand that the Brady Campaign is one group's political agenda and not a real safety issue," the statement said.
Florida greets more than one million visitors on any given day, with nearly 80 million tourists visiting the state in 2004, Visit Florida said.
The Brady Campaign leaflets, which the group intends to hand out for about a month at the Miami and Orlando airports, call the measure the "Shoot First" law and urge people to "take sensible precautions" while visiting the state.
"There is no other state in the nation " and no other civilized nation on Earth " that has a law like this," Brady Campaign spokesman Peter Hamm said. "It could cause the most aggressive people in society to overreact."
The group also has taken out ads in major Detroit, Chicago, Boston and London newspapers about the new Florida law.
Several people who got the leaflets at the Miami airport on Monday appeared taken aback by the new law.
"It's a little scary," said Melissa Vosberg, on her way home to the Chicago area after a cruise in the Bahamas. "It's 'shoot first, ask about it later."'
51 - latina
This blog is pretty interesting, will add a bookmark, thanks.
52 - Scott Butki
Ann/Phil: A dumb question perhaps but I'm full of those this week...
When I write the media reality check pieces I want you to have time to edit it - cause God knows I'm not perfect - but I also consider them more timely in nature than some other posts I wrote like book reviews?
What's the best way to let editors know it's ready without being pushy?
Is an email to an editor(s) appropriate? I just want to avoid it getting stale.
Please advise and thanks for the past, current and future editing help.
53 - Phillip Winn
We try to edit and publish all articles the day they're posted, but generally get to them on a first-in, first-out basis. I don't think an email would really help.
54 - Scott Butki
Ok, that's what I need to know.
Thanks!
55 - Mike
Where's Osama Bin Laden?
Where's Osama Bin Laden?
Where's Osama Bin Laden?
56 - Phillip Winn
Good questions, Mike. Where?
Haven't heard from him in... well, it seems like a long time. Is he dead? Sick?
57 - Anthony Grande
"Where's Osama Bin Laden?
Where's Osama Bin Laden?
Where's Osama Bin Laden?"
Well if he's still alive he is living a sad, lonely, miserable and powerless life.
58 - noanchorbabies
Some palm trees were recently installed very close to the edge of cloverleaf offramp in Oceanside. Shortly after I first noticed them I saw that one of them had been knocked over. Fortunately they had not firmly take root, so there's a chance that the hapless driver might not have been killed.
This got me to thinking. There must be millions of such trees installed all over the country. So I'm sure there must be an occasional fatality, that wouldn't have happened if they had not been there to collide with. So as a society we are willing to accept this risk, the only benefit of which (other than some nursery company's profit) is the esthetic pleasure of having a decorative landscape to look at while driving.
This got me to thinking further. Of the millions of people who have taken Ephedra, there is some (inconclusive) suspicion that one or two such users may have died from ingesting that particular herbal supplement. Immediately the FDA pounces and imposes a nationwide ban. Every person who used it was willing to take the (infinitessimal) risk, not for some abstract esthetic benefit, but because they were convinced that doing so would benefit their health.
So think about the contrast here. The first time someone crashed into a tree, did the government immediately require that all such trees be removed? And if not, why not? There is certainly considerably more justification to remove the trees than there is to ban Ephedra - for two reasons: first, the connection between hitting the tree and being killed is undeniable, in contrast to the deaths supposedly attributable to taking Ephedra; and second, removing the trees, and replacing them with some less lethal decorative landscaping, would deprive no one of anything that they could object to, while banning Ephedra deprives millions of people of something they might very well strenuously object to not being able to obtain.
I smell a rat somewhere, and I'm pretty sure that rat is the pharmaceutical industry, using well meaning but stupid liberals who think that the government's job is to constantly chase the chimera of a completely risk free existence - and by doing so eliminate a small negative (MAYBE preventing a very small number of people from dying of an Ephedra overdose) while at the same time creating a very large negative (adversely impacting the health of millions benefitting from the proper usage of that particular herb - thereby making it less likely that they will get sick and need to purchase drugs).
59 - It doesn't matter
I am not surprise that African Artists that performed and was the best of whole show still does not get a credit or recognition.Soukousstar did very well and i never saw a clip of them or a picure saying they won a ward or something.Maybe i am not looking at the right place,so please correct me if i am wrong but, this is a bout Jaimaicans and Caribians show not international?
60 - kincaid
Why America should get out of Iraq / they will betray us
Iraq will become another Iran. It does not matter how much money we spend. It does not matter how many people will send over there to die. There is nothing we can do to stop it. People of Iraq will betray us. Just as Kuwait will someday. An anti-American movement has been growing fast in Kuwait. Muslim extremists could someday be in power in Kuwait.
Shi´ites and the Kurds, are both pro-Iranian. Three of the most powerful figures in the Iraq government, Shi´ite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani all received military backing and shelter from Iran during Saddam´s rule. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'fari, lived for years in exile in Iran. Iraqi Ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Sheikh has called for expansion of current ties with Iran. All of Iraq´s great clerical leaders have been Iranian or studied in Iran. There has been a large-scale return of Iranian pilgrims to Shi´ite holy sites in the Iraqi cities of Najaf, Karbala, Baghdad and Samarra. The Iraq government voted to oust from Iraq the Mujahideen Khalq, an Iraq-based Iranian guerrilla group opposed to Tehran´s clerical regime. Iran and Iraq have also set up a committee to study linking the two countries´ oil, gas and electricity networks, which could be the first step towards turning the two nations into one.
Muqtada Al-Sadr
Saddam City, as it was known before the fall of the regime, was renamed Al-Sadr City. Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani praised Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Sadriyun Movement. Muqtada Al-Sadr , or someone like him will one day become President of Iraq. One day the people of Iraq will vote to turn Iraq into a Shiite - dominated Islamic republic just like Iran.
And there is nothing the United States can do to stop this.WHY?
This is what the people of Iraq want. They want to trunk Iraq into a Shiite - dominated Islamic republic just like Iran. The United States can not force or give our idea of freedom to Iraq. No one gave the United States our freedom. The people of the United States had to fight and die for our freedom. The people of Iraq will have to fight and die for the freedom of Iraq. There has to be a change in Arab society and culture. And this has not happen yet. The people of Iraq and the people of the Arab world have to pay the price for freedom.
(This is the price of freedom: Your every drop of courage, ounce of pain, pint of blood. Paid in advance.)
- Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
http://novus-ordo-seclorum.us/
61 - larry
reading about the race riots in in australia,they claim to be be the great melting pot. no racism racism here. they treated the aborigines
as lower class citizens for a long long time and probably still do
62 - noanchorbabies
Iraq will betray us. Just as Kuwait will someday. An anti-American movement has been growing fast in Kuwait. Muslim extremists could someday be in power in Kuwait.
I agree 100%. Iraq has been a huge waste of American money and blood. Treachery has always been Islam's SOP, and always will be. The American Muslims are no different than the Iraqi or Kuwaiti ones. They will turn on us too, as soon as their numbers have grown sufficiently large.
We should be concentrating on getting the enemy out of our own midst. America and Europe had better start expelling them before the threat of Islamicization gets even worse than it already is.
There are currently 6 million in the U.S. The hundreds of billions wasted in Iraq could have been put to so much better use paying a hundred thousand dollars a head for every Muslim in the country to relocate elsewhere.
When Palestine was ethnically cleased of Jews we didn't hear any cries of "Xenophobia! Racism! Ethinic hatred!" did we? So let the same hypocrites keep their fucking mouths shut while the Muslims are ejected from the United States, Britain, France, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.
Do it now, or be prepared for costs and body counts that will dwarf to insignificance those we've experienced in Iraq. Learn the lesson of Katrina, spend a hundred million beefing up the levies, or spend hundreds of billions rebuilding after the disaster for which we will be unprepared.
63 - Aaman
more anti-Muslim hatred
Sigh
64 - noanchorbabies
more anti-Muslim hatred
No. More anti-Islam hatred. Big difference. I'm not calling for extermination, like Hitler did with the Jews. I don't hate individual Muslims. I feel sorry for Westerners who get sucked in as converts, as well as for those born into Islam who can't get out of it without risking a Koranic death sentence.
I favor a policy of starting with a lower bribe, say $20,000 that would thin out those who have the least desire to be living here. Then raising the ante to the point where Muslim ranks are pared down to some manageable fraction of a percentage point of the total population - along, of course, with a complete ban on any further Muslim immigration.
Just having an official policy that says "You are not wanted here" would go a long way toward encouraging many to leave, thereby reducing the possibility that through continued immigration and a high birth rate, the 50% mark could be reached. For at that critical point Muslims could and would use democracy to destroy democracy by voting away whatever laws and constitutional protections might be standing in the way of their dream of turning the United States into a caliphate governed by Sharia Law - which of course would ignite an apocalyptic civil war such as the world has never seen before.
65 - Aaman
mere casuistry
66 - noanchorbabies
mere evasive taquiya
67 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Now now, boys, behave.
Aaman, Noanchorbabies does not have an unreasonable proposal. Something very similar to it was in force in the US from 1922 to 1965. Jews, wops and wogs were unwelcome. That is why my cousin had to go to La Habana, Cuba with her husband when she left Poland in 1928, instead of New York. She didn't make it to the US until 1955. She shoulda gone to Eretz Yisrael straightaway, but I digress.
Foreigners don't get protected under the US constitution.
The only problem with his solution, Aaman, is that it is two decades too late. Moslems have enough of a minority in the US to raise an awful stink if his policy were proposed, and an even bigger one were it passed.
And the liberal Jews there, ever attempting to put someone on the "up for slaughter and persecution list" in front of them, would be backing the Moslems all the way.
What idiots.
68 - noanchorbabies
Ruvy,
The figure 6 million needs to be understood in light of the fact that 3 million of those are black "muslims".
The true muslims are always trying to inflate these numbers. On the one hand Farakhan's bunch are rejected as being completely unacceptable doctrinally, and yet they always include them in their head count!!!
Actually Elijah Muhammed's followers are a considerably more benign group that I don't worry about, unconnected to the more virulent Middle Eastern based strains.
And many of the remainder are converts still partially infected with Judaeo-Christian value baggage, who can't quite stomach things such as adultery stoning, honor killing, humanless art, the ban against women being heard speaking in public or, Allah forbid, singing, etc.
So maybe we're not really a full two decades too late. And how many years late do you consider TOO late, anyway?
69 - Ruvy in Jerualem
Well, bearing in mind that you would still have the limousine liberals and the ACLU protecting them, I would still say that you are two decades too late. More based on the size of the stink that they would raise. THEY would cite 6 million Moslems and the good boys at ABC, CBS, NPR and the AP would repeat their lies, just like they repeat the other lies the Arabs feed them.
You get the idea. A guppy turned into a blowfish.
And don't ever underestimate the enthusiasm of a convert. You should hear some of what the Jewish converts here say about the Christianity they've left...
It's a daunting fight - but you are welcome to it. Start those phone trees going.
70 - Mario G. Nitrini 111
The OJ Simpson Case:
subject: Michael Hahn, Kim Goldman, Fred Goldman, Me (Mario), MORE AND The OJ Simpson Case
This is Michael Hahn's (Kim Goldman's Husband) "FIRST E-MAIL" to Me. There was MORE in this "FIRST E-MAIL" that Michael Hahn Sent to me, but some of it I WILL NOT DIVULDGE, FOR REASONS:
Here is some of it,
Dated Monday, December 12th, 2005 at 9:20 AM.
in Michael Hahn's OWN WORDS,
Sent To Me, Mario G. Nitrini 111:
"Dear Sir,
I made the unfortunate mistake of marring Kim Goldman in 2001
and am now involved in a brutal divorce case trying to salvage the right to see my Son and retain any money that is owed me.
New Paragraph:
I have seen your posts were you publicly state your negative opinions
about Fred and Kim Goldman and am interested in any information you can offer me.
New Paragraph:
I am trying to get my Son away from those awful people and anything that would be helpful I would appreciate very much.
New Paragraph:
Fred Goldman, his daughter and their circle of friends are despicable people, I will do everything in my power to destroy them.
Please contact me, I look forward to talking with you.
Michael Hahn"
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Michael Hahn says he's Involved in a "BRUTAL DIVORCE CASE." So, according to Michael Hahn, he wants to retain ANY "MONEY" $$$$$$$$$$$$ that is owed him. According to Michael Hahn, he is trying to "SALVAGE" the Right to see his son.
WHO??? is Michael Hahn Referring to in Being Fred Goldman and Kim Goldman's "CIRCLE OF FRIENDS"??????
Michael Hahn says he is trying to get his son away from these AWFUL PEOPLE. WOW!!!!!!!!!
________________________________
I broke this "FIRST" E-Mail up that Michael Hahn sent to me SO NO ONE CAN FORGE ANYTHING.
I have The ORIGINAL E-MAILS that Michael Hahn sent to me in 3 Safe Places where ONLY MYSELF and a Few People can get to them, FOR REASONS!!!!!!! They are ALSO Posted Securely.
Check me if I'm Wrong, but I have heard "NOTHING" in The Media about this, NOTHING. Is this ANOTHER COVER-UP with a Connection to The OJ Simpson Case?????? SURE LOOKS LIKE IT TO ME.
Mario G. Nitrini 111
71 - Christopher Rose
Mario, if you must post these long stories, please try to make them more organised and understandable. Thanks.
72 - Mario G. Nitrini 111
Christopher,
I wasn't thinking.
I was/and still am Personally Involved in The OJ Simpson Case, and Cases that it Touches.
Michael Hahn, Kim Goldman Hahn's, I suppose now it's Estranged Husband, sent me this First E-mail on December 12th 2005. It's the one I Posted here on Blogcritics a few hours ago.
I will tell you this Christopher, THERE ARE Legal Happenings other than this Kim Goldman Hahn/ Michael Hahn Divorce Proceeding connected to The OJ Simpson Case, BIG TIME.
Mario G. Nitrini 111
73 - Mario G. Nitrini 111
MORE, with The OJ Simpson Case.
This is an E-mail I received from Aphrodite Jones:
"Mario --
I will look at your website and would like to talk with you after the holidays.
Perhaps there's some format of TV we can bring this explosive information to. I will check with FOX news and NBC news to see if there's interest.
Thanks for writing --
Sincerely --
Aphrodite"
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Mario G. Nitrini 111
[Mario, please leave out all the formatting stuff such as I have removed if you post here again. Comments Editor]
74 - Mario G. Nitrini 111
Comment Editor,
Why have you Deleted some of what I've said. I have said "NOTHING" Objectionable.
Mario G. Nitrini 111
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The OJ Simpson Case
75 - Christopher Rose
Mario: All I removed were your redundant + symbols, not any words.