Palin a Bigot?

(aren't we all...)

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

September 5, 2008

By Charley James

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.

Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”

Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it’s in their genetic code. So much for McCain’s pledge of a “high road” campaign; Palin is incapable of being part of one.

Tough Getting People Who Know Her to Talk
It’s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically about Palin – especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a recording told me that “all circuits are busy” or numbers just wouldn’t ring. I should think a state that’s been made richer than God by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.

On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.

“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.”

“Once Palin became mayor,” he continued, “She became part of that inner circle.”

Like most other people interviewed, he didn’t want his name used out of fear of retribution. Maybe it’s the long winter nights where you don’t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they’re under constant danger from “the authorities.” As I interviewed residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union: See nothing that’s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.

Alright, that’s an exaggeration brought on by my getting too little sleep and building too much anger as I worked this article. But there’s ample evidence of Palin’s vindictive willingness to destroy people she sees as opponents. Just ask the Wasilla town administrator she hired before firing him because he rebelled against the way Palin demanded he do his job, or the town librarian who refused to hold the book burning Walpurgisnach Mayor Palin demanded.

Ironically, Palin was pushed into hiring the administrator by the party poobahs who helped get her elected after she got herself into trouble over a number of precipitous firings which gave rise to a recall campaign.

“People who fought her attempt to oust the librarian are on her enemies list to this day,” states Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla resident and one of the few Alaskans willing to speak on-the-record, for attribution, about Palin. In fact, Kilkenny actually circulated an e-mail letter about Palin that was verified and printed by The Nation.

For good measure, Palin booted the Wasilla police chief from office because, she told a local newspaper, he “intimidated” her.

Running on Extreme Fringe Evangelical Views
Sarah Palin drew early attention from state GOP apparatchiks when, during her first mayoral campaign, she ran on an anti-abortion platform. Normally, political parties do not get involved in Alaskan municipal elections because they are nonpartisan. But once word of her extreme fringe evangelical views made its way to Juneau, the state capitol, state Republicans tossed some money behind her campaign.

Once in office, Palin set out to build a machine that chewed up anyone who got in her way. The good, Godly Christian turns out to be anything but.

“She’s doesn’t like different opinions and she refuses to compromise,” Kilkenny notes. “When she was mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t hers. Worse, ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits but on the basis of who proposed them.”

Sound familiar? Palin may well be Dick Cheney’s reincarnate.

Something else has a familiar Republican ring to it: Her tax policies, and a “refund surpluses but borrow for the future” attitude.

According to Kilkenny and others in Wasilla as well as Juneau, Palin reduced progressive property taxes for businesses while mayor and increased a regressive sales tax which even hits necessities such as food. The tax cuts she promoted in her St. Paul speech actually benefited large corporate property owners far more than they benefited residents. Indeed, Kilkenny insists that many Wasilla home owners actually saw their tax bill skyrocket to make up for the shortfall. Two other Wasillian’s with whom I spoke said property taxes on their modest, three bedroom homes rose during the Palin regime.

To an outsider, it would seem hard to do, but an oil-rich town with zero debt on the day she was inaugurated mayor was left saddled with $22 million of debt by the time she moved away to become governor – especially since nothing was spent on things such as improving the city’s infrastructure or building a much-needed sewage treatment plant. So what did Mayor Palin spend the taxpayer’s money on, if not fixing streets and scrubbing sewage?

For starters, she remodelled her office. Several times over, as a matter of fact.

Then Palin spent $1 million on an unnecessary, new park that no one other than the contractors and Palin seemed to want. Next, Sarah doled out more than $15 million of taxpayer money for a sports complex that she shoved through even though the city did not own clear title to the land; now, seven years later, the matter is still in litigation and lawyer fees are said to be close to at least half of the original estimated price of the facility.

She also worked hard to get voters approval of a $5.5 million bond proposal for roads that could have been built without borrowing. Anchorage may not be the center of the financial universe but, like good Republicans everywhere, Sarah Palin knows how to please Alaskan bankers and bond dealers.

For good measure, she turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots.

Sarah Barracuda
En route to the governor’s igloo, Palin managed to land what Anne Kilkenny says is the plumb political appointment in the state: Chair of Alaska’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC), a $122,400 per year patronage slot with no real authority to do anything other than hold meetings. She took the job despite having no background in energy issues and, as it turned out, not liking the work.

“She hated the job,” an OGCC staff member who is not authorized to speak with the news media told me. “She hated the hours and she hated what little work there was to do. But she couldn’t figure out a way to get out of the thing without offending Gov. Murkowski” and the state Republican Party regulars, some of whom were pissed off they didn’t get appointed.

But ever the opportunist, Palin quickly concocted a way. First, she waged a campaign with the local news media claiming that the position was overpaid and should be abolished – despite the fact that she lobbied Murkowski hard to get it. Then, mounting what she saw as a white horse, Palin raised a cloud of dust by resigning from the OGCC and riding away with an undeserved reputation as a “reformer.”

But when a local reporter dared to suggest that the reformer Empress has no clothes, Palin tried to get her fired.

“She came at me like I was trying to steal her kids,” said the targeted reporter, who now works for an oil company in Anchorage. “I heard she had a wild temper and vicious mean streak but it’s nothing like you can imagine until she turns it on you.”

Not surprising since some of her high school classmates still openly call her “Sarah Barracuda,” Kilkenny insists.

Still, as a Republican Party hack Palin managed to get herself elected running under the false flag of a “reformer.”

And what did she bring to the job? No legislative experience other than a city council of a village of 5,000 people, which is smaller than some high schools in Chicago. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; after all, she needed to hire a city administrator to run Wasilla. No executive experience, except for almost being recalled as mayor. A philosophy of setting public policy based on one word: No.

And what has she done since winning the job?

According to Kilkenny, nothing. Well, nothing other than suggesting the state’s multi-multi-million dollar, oil-generated surplus be distributed to residents and finance future state needs by borrowing money. Gee, doesn’t that sound precisely what George Bush did with the surplus he inherited from Bill Clinton in 2001 and we all know in what great shape Bush’s economic policies left the nation.

It may explain why, when asked by reporters, including me, what she thought about Palin being picked to be McCain’s running mate, her mother-in-law replied with a sardonic, “What has Sarah done to qualify her to be vice president?” Of course, when the woman – said by many I spoke with to be well-respected in Wasilla – was running to succeed Palin as mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her, so that may explain the family tension.

As Governor, Palin gave the legislature no direction and budget guidelines, according to the chair of a legislative committee. But then she staged a huge grandstand play of line-item vetoing countless projects, calling them pork. “They were restored because of public outcry and legislative action,” the aide said. “She vetoed them mostly because she had no idea what they were or why they were important.”

But it was enough to get the McCain, who is mostly unobservant of the world around him anyway, to think Palin has a reputation as being “anti-pork”.

In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.

As for being “ready on day one” to be commander in chief, despite the repeated public claims she’s made, the Alaska National Guard commander said that, “she has made no command decisions, other than sending some troops to help fight a few brush fires and march in parades at county fairs.”

“Sambo Beat the Bitch”
“Palin is a conniving, manipulative, a**hole,” someone who thinks these are positive traits in a governor told me, summing up Palin’s tenure in Alaska state and local politics.

“She’s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,” is the more blunt assessment of Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now a businessman in Idaho.

charley-james.jpg“Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,” he adds. “These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.”

“Sambo beat the bitch” may be everyday language up in the bush. Whether it – and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects when she says such things in public – should be part of a presidential campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and vote anyway for McCain.

George Washington (IFC)

"Arguably the most unaffected child actors in cinema history"

Suzuki Gladius

Suzuki's attempt at attracting Mac users.

(aka the scooter set)

Needs a name change for the US market.

gladius - Latin for sword (the one your typically see Roman soldiers carrying in the moving pictures)

Dag, yo.

I thought the only time this happened was the last Yo! MTV Raps

(search that yerself)

Yes, Jarobi

is a real person.

I miss Tribe.

(sniffle)

Chip Fu Stop the Violence Freestyle

I wish I could freestyle

Quote

I firmly believe in dancing. in your living room or around the world. through smiles or tears. until you no longer can. dance."

(the mumbai dance, in particular, is that mickifickin' fiyah)

Do You Think Sarah Palin

is qualified to be VP?

(link updated!)

If You Use Human Milk, Is It Still Dairy

Swiss restaurant switching people milk, PETA wants B&J ice cream to follow suit.

Gross?

Repulsive?

And you don't consider drinking a substance produced by an animal that poops in the same place it eats and is, well, a completely different animal somewhat strange?

Not saying I'll be first in line;

But if I have to do baby food, it would seem that HUMAN baby food would be better.

(assume the author is NOT a bovine)

I just saw a commercial

with Venus & Serena Williams practicing,

and a giant DoubleStuffed

OREO

comes running out to get a dead ball.

....

hm.

:|

Negrodamus Was Wrong

But so were me and Chuck D

I like this one mostly for the Paul vs Paul quip at the end.

Paul won.

Mooney on Richards on Susteran

Old, but...

One day wyte ppl r going 2 lrn 2 leave this dude alone...

Post-Ike Pics

amazing.

SNL

on hiatus from being unfunny.

FYI: Rice Dream Chocolate Chai

is the bee's ankles, hips, toes, elbows, & knees.

Him vs. Her

Senator Obama on the Bill O'Reilly show (mouse over the video window at the end to see part 2)

Gov. Palin interviewed by Charles Gibson (I think this is w/o the cuts, if there's another more complete version, feel free to post in comments)

Cats are evil

Never forget that

I feel bad for pugs.

It's bad enough that their breathing and sinus problems are the results of fashion breeding,

then people make dumb@$$ blogs where they pretend like the dogs can type/talk.

I mean the dog is cute and all, but come on.

I want to know what pugs would look like if they had snouts.

88 Keys - "Wastin' My Minutes"

lang warning

Because we've all been there

to some extent

at least, once.

Fat/Feet

A lifetime of saturated fat will make your heart look like a ham.



(Narrow shoes+high heels) x having to walk = bad feet.



Yes, I'm still bringing up old sh!t.

{and since I know you need to hear "him" say it to believe it)

Wow

The boom is over, the boom over

(buk, buk)

Cindy McCain Drifts

wow

great

(chortle)

Faked, though, it seems.

I don't suppose that quite looks like a mid-40s mother of 5 body.
Although...that's a generalization,
Something I'm sure you'd never see in a political race.

In case you were wondering what

a modern videogame v/o script looks like:

In this scene, the gang members observe a white guy in their neighborhood.

BOMBER 1

What you staring at, white boy?

Can't you see we busy here?

BOMBER 2

Somebody in the wroooong part of

town.

When the white guy gets closer, the gangsters get really angry:

BOMBER 1

You deaf? This here's our turf and

you not welcome. Vamoose, greaseball.

BOMBER 2

Yeah, keep messin' with us, and you'll

have to deal with the Bombers.

If the guy doesn’t leave, they'll attack him.

BOMBER 1

OK, now you done it, muthafucka.

BOMBER 2

Now we gonna whoop yo ass, boy.

In this scene, the gang members witness someone trying to break into their car.

BOMBER 2

(amazed)

Motherfucka! That nigga's stealin'

my car! You believe this shit?

BOMBER 2 (CONT'D)

Get the fuck away from my ride!

BOMBER 2 (CONT'D)

Crazy white boy done broke my window!

BOMBER 2 (CONT'D)

Hey! Whatchoo doin' muthafucka!!!

BOMBER 2 (CONT'D)

You done gone and messed with the

wrong niggas now, boy.

BOMBER 1

(threatening)

Now we gonna beat yo lily white ass.

I just turned down

a video game audition because

I
just
don't
feel
like
saying
"n****r" (or the cute respelling n***a, as they had it)

in yet another game about
yet more Italians
with yet more guns.

I'm sure I'm the sucker...I'm sorry, sucka.

Poverty check:

..
....

yep. still poor.

THIS IS THE WORST SPEECH

AND THE WORST AUDIENCE


EVER.

Sen. Lindsey Graham

Ladies and gentleman, I give you what may be the worst orator in Congress.

Or maybe he just didn't believe what he was saying.

(iyulhkh)

Gustav Can Kiss My....

Almost on the anniversary of Katrina, Gustav, at Cat 5, is passing over Cuba.

In remembrance of that event, and to bring some context to this one, a houston chronicle citizen-blogger reposts this from a last year.

As to reiterate my view of the subject,
don't pop sh!t about what should've been done,
what you would've done,

until you've actually faced having to do it.

Because I need it

and because today's the day:



NAPPY BIRT'DAY, GWEN!!!!!


:P

How far women's athetics have come

From the 2000 Sydney-lympics

(video, one expletive - low vol/earphone rules apply)

'tis a shame that I've had to wait 8 years to come to know this guy.

Ever-mounting are the travesties of existence...

Uh.....

yeah.


I remember back when I used to think Kool-Aid(tm) tasted


goooooOOOOOoooouuud.


(that was then)

maybe I'm not ok...

am I allowed to still dig the roots, but remain unconcerned with the Sol-angel?


I can tell it's been ten years, 'cuz the chillun's taste is definitely taking over.


alas, the good ol days..

Me and Raw Oysters

My response to somebody trying to convince me that I should try these extra special oysters that are going to be at said person's extra special party.

"It's a dead water snail in a rock."

I find that hilarious.

I think it flows better w/o "water", but I like specificity.

(no the flow/water thing wasn't intentional)

Tyra's Cranium

I often reference the undue and possibly extra-terrestrial nature of the size of Ms. Banks' forehead. I just want to take this opportunity to say how wrong I've been to do so.

Without proof.

(let the suspense build, or skip ahead to about 1:15)

My apologies.

{you're right. that's not her voice. cookie for you}

More proof

that I must be getting old (qualitative):

not only did I just sit through a Brak episode that wasn't this one,

I found it funny.

yikes.

Vivien Thomas

It seems I neglected to mention him.

Of particular interest because he was born near part of my ancestral geography.

(peculiar for me that where he was born was so remote as to be referred to as "near" LP)

There is a movie based around some of his work, Something the Lord Made.

I find at least a hair overwrought in tone, though not oppressive by any means.

(I really liked much of what Mos Def was doing in it)

Rapclassix.com

Do it. Now.

Flying Dream

earlier today,

I was flying small jet that looked like a miniature F-22 (with 2+2 seating),

couldn't figure out how to control speed,

couldn't land

(end)

Certainly it couldn't had anything to do with watching this.

Carnal desires

I have a powerful hankerin' for some beef ribs.

Dang shame I po'.

Did I mention I'm po'?

No, I mean more than the usual.

Paid rent w/cc,

though the plan is to pay that back once my promo check comes.

Cellphone? Insurance? Next month's CC?

No clue.

I desperately hope something regular develops soon.

But I digress.

Ribs.

Yeah.

I might have to make that happen.

I wonder how many you get for meat theft in New York State......(?)

Crazy Addendum

Or, perhaps, it is just that I attract crazy people.

Either way,


(sigh).

And while I'm again not sleeping

Radiohead - All I Need

Chopp - School Is In (outside VPND#25, I have no idea where to get this)

Gordon Gartrell Radio

I've not listened to a lick of it yet.

I recommend strictly on the name alone.

And, Phonte 'nem be on'nere.

And because it is in general keeping with my general policy of legally dl'ing all my new music for free.

I'm broke. No joke. Eating's going to be an adventure for a while.

Bills?

(scoff)

Somebody please tell Bob Costas

that Carmelo has cornrows, not (modified dreadlocks).

If, I'm wrong, please englighten.

With proof.

P.S.: the US team uni's are blah. I hate the caps.

(another note to Bob and Matt: try Kangol or button cap, not a beret. They were all just being cute wearing it slightly to the side)

Zipless

F##k


Though not sure whence "zip" comes in.

heartbeeps

cheesy

AND very, very not good.

so much so that it apparently cost us the Tony Clifton Story.

60's Soul, 10 years Removed

and British

whatever happened to that former army dude that all the morning news shows were trying their damndest to make the next Sam Cooke?

Top Gear

is, w/o question, the funniest TV show on cable.

Probably funniest on TV

period.

(part 4)

(5)

Better Days

I always thought the name of this was "Be Patient".

Rachelle and her should do an album together.

A Play about the Black Experience

written by someone of Korean descent.

Hmm.

The Blog.

Happy **** Day

I don't really like to provide free advertising.

Sometimes, though, the public service component is sufficient.

New Ish

Came back to a brand spanking new Indian joint down the street directly across from that are two Sri Lankan joints.






A few months ago a new pizza joint opened (finally).
And our Rey opened back up after the sale of the place fell through...

If you continue about a mile down the street there's Caribbean and several reps from Latin America.

pfft.

who needs manhattan.

Watch

Well.....

Do you get it now?

Oh, a warning - u may just want to listen if you're squeemish.

It's more about the dialogue that the verse.

Today my

father complained to every adult in the house but me about my using crushed ice he bought to ice my knee that was swollen a size larger than normal.


Hearing the second complaint I went downstairs, filled the ice tray with ice from bag that was open in the deep freezer and proceeded to leave the house in an effort to relieve the potential for the expletives that I was swallowing from turning ulceratic.

I returned with a bag of ice.

I found my nephew in the kitchen meditating in lotus position. I've no idea where he picked it up, but he kept it for a while.

I had to get in him for raising his voice to my mother, but I love that dude (as previously stated).

I've not felt this much contempt for my father since... I don't know -

since when I first left after college.

I plan to be out of this house as much as possible before returning to the-CitY-I work-iN.

Two adult lions cannot occupy the same territory. 'Twould be quite easy to find something for that final scene of Yellowman right now.

It's just strange to me, 'cuz I thought we - .... I was past this.

Particularly when I had so much praise welled up on my way here.

(eyebrow)

(chest heaving breaths)

(sigh)

Dr. Michel Dabaghi (1907-2008)

Known to the vast majority of us as Michael DeBakey.

Never knew he was Louisianian, let alone Lebonese.

3 months shy of 100 revolutions walking;
continued to practice almost all the way to the end.

Impressive man.

Rest...

Doing away with money,

is not the same thing as ending capitialism.

The term capitalism, in the U.S., is often used to reference what is called a "free" economic market.

(despite how much government control is exacted over said "free" market)

Capitalism as a philosophy, however, could be viewed as detrimental in the possibility that it encourages efforts toward personal gain at nearly any cost...

If one were of the type to view such-a-thing as negative, one might have a certain degree of impact on a capitalistic society by ridding the focus of it - money (assuming that cap. soc. is money-based).

Money itself as a means of trade has it's own inefficiencies. In the US economy, it is currently devalued given that it's backing is market based now, rather than commodity based. One must remember that money itself has not it's face value...it represents value.

Well, one hopes it does anyway.

Those philosophical non-capitalists might assert that, had maximizing gain not been so important, U.S. banks might have kept their investments out of the markets and we'd have a more stable US dollar now.

An optimal system probably would be some combination of barter/cash. Barter, so I argue, would encourage more localized exchange.

Taking guns away from people won't stop killing....
But tying a polished rock to a club takes time.

Maybe they ass'll think about it first.

I Love My Nephew

I'm amazed at not just how he's an amalgam of all of us, but how palpably so.

It's like looking at Voltron.

He's taking over my mother's job as the household conduit - the person through him people communicate with each other. Or, more specifically, the kids communicate with father and father the kids. He is indomitable in his notion that he should actually try to prove points to the brick, rubber coated, glass-encased wall that is my father.

He goes out of his way to do everything for all of us.

And he does all this despite all the reasons he has to be bitter

Biological not involved
Bouncing around from home to home
Early health problems
How much time we didn't spend with him...planted in front of a TV.

I worry that, being a pleaser, he'll get taken advantage of...
But he get's in trouble for fighting at school. I choose to take that as a sign of standing-up-for-self.

He's growing...I have confidence that he will be what the subsequent generation is always supposed to be: greater than the sum of its parts.

He my dude. I don't believe in pride. Blessing is the only concept that comes close.

Let him be a beacon, God. Let him emit light.

(inshallah)

I spent at least 3 Days of the past week

pissed at my father.

And I think much of that has to do with guilt over not taking over his business from him.

The sell is complete, the name has been changed on the sign. Retirement is official now. When he goes into the office now (1 day a week), he works for the boss. The first time he's had one in around 3 decades.

There is a significant part of me that feels it is wrong that he worked so hard to build that up for us, but neither of us wanted it.

Although my mom wanted it, and he didn't want to sell to her...and it was my idea to present the option of going in with her. Much like my 1 shot at permanent monogamy, that chance was given up by not speaking up soon enough.

So, anyway, I was pissed at him. May still be now. Pissed I think, because, just there was guilt of letting that pass to someone else, the feeling of him being disappointed in me was more (than) less verbally confirmed.

So. There's that.

No Ms. Denmark,

ergo,

bollocks.

Although they did get National Costume right.

Your baloney has a first name....

Miss Universe Inc.

Honorable Mention: National Costume

Thailand

I was already impressed just from the photo - thass real ish, yo. Muay thai, straight up.

Then I watched the video.

Wow. Moves ain't perfect, but I'll take the effort.

Peep the visage, the visage.

Knees and elbows at the end?

(big, broad clap)

ed: turns out I sorta predicted this one.

To be clear:

I don't advocate this stuff at all,

but props to Ms. Denmark for rockin' it nappy.

Has anybody besides me noticed the propensity for hy-buh-rids to do this more than los puros?

Oh...

"ya'll let her do that 'cuz she lite-skinned"

right. forgot.

exoticism is fetishism.

(work, dammit)

Yay, Miss Universe Is Relevant Again!

(sic)

photos of the current crop.

I think somebody needs to check Brazil for a tuck

and do a gene profile on Indonesia.



yes. I know. I'm mean.

Need Some Pop/Lock

music in a pinch?

try wagon crist - musical box

Cupcakin'

is so fundamental.
I have not been on my post game like I was in May.

Alas, the unfulfilled potential.

uh.....

what?

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHHA

Thank you, Ms. Princess, for making it easy for me to remain:

NotANigga(c)

(sigh)

attractive woman, fwiw.

Um

Yikes.

(lang warning, PG-13)

Am I the only one

who is annoyed when she is consistently referred to as "Mama"?

Mrs. Younger does have a name...

Assimilation

vs.

a-similation


Hm.

Reggae Stylee!!!

As I just texted the great and powerful J. Willickers!,

reggae stylings of anything makes said anything better.

Seek proof.

Unless they're using a version of the play

that I don't know about,

I have no interest whatsoever in playing George Murchison.

B'cuz e'day is my b'day

First the plane, now the car.
It's done better here due to the motion-controlled VR.

One way or 'nother, I will have this.

Oh, yes. I will.

Thorns, Bugbites & Spiderwebs (slapslap)

I finally made it back to Wolfe's Pond Park (with two viable inner tubes AND an extra).

Needs:
new helmet
mountain shoes (jammed toes cramp my style)
seriously considering clipless pedals
eventually need some new pads
and tires
mostly lots and lots of seat time

I don't think I found all the trails there, but there were more than I thought I'd find at first. Technically there are no open biking trails there until mid-July, but the rangers there seem to let people ride anyway.

It's nice to have the Schwinn back to it's original fat, nobby tired purpose. The over 20 year old Selle Royale
work well combined with the Thudbuster (which was getting tested in its true element for the first time in the 3 years I've had it. It would have worked even better had I not had it tilted to far down (one day I'm going to suck it up and carry tools with me everywhere I go).

Every non-casual rider should have at least three bikes.

One dedicated to dirt
One dedicated to fast
One dedicated to commuting/casual trundling (<- the one that you install that electric drive on to help with the hills and the extra weight from shopping/backpack/briefcase/gym bag/whatnot).

"Heartbreaker" (eyeroll)

Chalk another one up for that jerk.

It appears I let things go too far even in my friendships.

One day I'm going to learn to say things when they need to be said.

Either I'm crazy, or everybody else is.

-- oh, what's this: a long-a$$ email in my inbox? Great.

(sigh)

Alternative Transitional Housing

If you ain't got the message yet....

From a conversation last night

in response to a declaration of not feeling valued:

it's not that they don't value you, it's that they take advantage of your value"

if it were a movie, it would probably go:

it's not that the don't value you. They value you a lot. Their just taking advantage of your high value"

.... perhaps "abusing" instead of "taking advantage of"

if it were Samuel L. Jackson it'd go:

it's not that the m***********s don't value yo a$. They value yo a$. They just be taking advantage of the sh!t. Oh, your a$$ has high-a$$ value.

Well. some people would think it would sound like that. People like Quentin Tarantino.

(implicative eyeroll)

If one of my parents

is mixed/mulatto/etc., does that mean I am?

Does having parents of different religions count?
Different denominations?
Different class?

Education level
political affiliation

geo-psycho-emotional sports affiliation?

if I have a parent that is (a+b+c), who raises me only as c, and I am percieved in a way that's generally regarded as c,

do I still count as a or c?

Math is fun.

HEEEEHEEEHEHEEEEE

WOOOHEEHEEHEE

Obama Clinches (sorta)

I should be using this space to wax erudite about the significance of Sen. Obama receiving the requisite number of delegates to receive the Democratic Party nomination...

and perhaps criticize Sen. Clinton for continuing to hold out...

or at least elucidate on the fallacious blather of all those who complain that Father Phleger's comments were sexist and racist (puhleeze).

I will instead use this space to post a link to

this.

( and I thought this was just a joke when I heard it on VPND#25)

Bill is so jealous.

(btw, the above should not be viewed as an endorsement by the this blog)

If metal is a conductor,

why do people wrap hot food in aluminum foil?

Damn!

this made me do the wop.

it's has a certain amount of Let the Music Play to it.

Again?!?

Cranes keep toppling in Manhattan.

Perhaps the spirit's flagging attempt at indicating displeasure at the continual vertical development....

There was just a big spectacle made of the replacement of the person in charge of construction safety after the previous collapse.

(...)

!

(doing)

Glovephone

only a concept as of yet.

Just hurry up and do it before Apple gets their hands on it,
makes it all black with silver trim,

and claims to have started a revolution.

Wait...dammit, was that an unintentional hand pun?
Is a pun that's unintentional still a pun?

Hammer-Nailhead-Hit

I love when people get stuff absolutely right.

Commenters make commenting suck.
warning: language, content

(if you don't get the above, check out the commenters at gizmag.com or gizmodo.com

commenters in news stories also are annoying, but nobody does annoying like college kids.

they go to school for it)

Weird

there is an acquaintance of mine who I find adorable...

who seems to me an amalgam of fornercoworkercurrentff.

and

(dundunduuuuuuun)

college gf .

can't figure out if the previous is the reason for the perception,

or wld the perception stand in it own,

or y this occupies me so.

i h8t my brain smtymes.

Ah, youth....

Congratulation Season

i'm not jealous.

(much)

Nothing like a little Monday

morning lovin'.

(creak.creak.creak)

I've always wondered if Gizmo cared. Apparently not.

Voltron Reebok?

Check.

Oh, yeah, the milk thing.

Well, internet sources aren't generally regarded as good sources,

but they can usually lead you to where their info comes from, if they've got something useful to say.

If you happen to be of the group who are lucky enough to keep producing lactase after childhood, congrats.

Don't know how that's going to help with the hormones, though.

(and no, the hormones in the meat supply don't help, either)

I talk for a living (well, usually), and I despise have my voice break with mucus stickin' up my larynx...

So, I'll continue to minimize my intake of the stuff. I'm sure soy/rice/almond milk ain't perfect, but I'll take it.

(here's some TV appearances of cuzzin above, fwiw)

Raising Victor Vargas

I could complain about some of the content, but it's nothing unrealistic.

Me encanta la abuela.

(update: had a dream influenced by the above....one misses innocence,,,first seems a long time ago --- such is life past young youth)

Man @ 125th/Lenox

wearing an Obama pin on his lapel & purchasing Apple Booty 5 (bootleg, no less).

While looking at a

page on the dreaded myspace,
that has, as one of it's profile songs
"4th Theme - Electric Company"

Gizmo matter-of-factly

got up and walked out of the room.

He funny.

!!!!!!!

Have cable? This is what your kids are watching in the morning.

(may seem to start slow, but your patience will be rewarded)

As usual, I'm confused.

Insanely funny,
or
insanely depressing that this much sexual innuendo makes it to children's tv....

"Hey, what are those?"

Ridiculous.

Nothing this relevant since dancing banana.

In case you haven't gotten a chance

to catch the NKOTB tour billboard over ESPNZone on B'Way,

I'll sum it up for you:

stuck somewhere between bwahah and ew.


(bow)

Educational Focus

On most colleges/university campuses, facilities are built around the administrative buildings,

often the "main" building is where the prez's office is.

Take a look at this interactive campus map.

Can you find the admin bldgs?

Notice the what the centermost bldg is?

Interesting

One of these kids

is doing her own thing,

and she's doing it with no shame.

See if you can find waldo.

(hint: high heels suck)

{bwahaaaaaaahaa}

Liz Padilla's Ghost Bike

at the corner of Warren and 5th Ave. in Brooklyn

Customer Appreciation

This





was placed just inside the door way of this establishment




Times Square circa 70s-80s stikes again.

The Album Leaf - Outer Banks

Nice.

Something about the beginning.

Longer, lower quality more "complete & balanced" version here

As I should be spending

less money given the unexpected financial burden due to the actions on my personal transportation by the city and it's thieves, it is quite ironic that it has caused me to be slightly more given to ordering in...

and,
therefore,
spending more money.

I wonder how differently all this would have gone the speech/comm disorders route.

(shrug)