Wednesday, December 24, 2008
US Americans
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln
SUCH AS
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Fatcatwa
I am furious that Bernard Madoff is suspected of committing what is quite literally the greatest fraud of all time, and yet he was let off on bail. Knock off a 7 11 and you wont be granted bail, commit a $50 billion fraud that is already causing shutdowns of non-profits and philanthropic foundations and you'll be sent home with an ankle bracelet and a curfew. I'm a pacifist, so will somebody else please put a bullet in this guy's head?
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Fugitive
Today I awoke a fugitive.
I awoke around noon, though I was supposed to appear in court to contest a speeding ticket at 9.
I woke up late despite setting a total of 6 alarms on my phone (which was underneath me when I woke (great album!)), having Steve repeatedly call me and setting my faulty alarm clock (which has since been summarily smashed to bits).
I had to post $100 bond today to get off the lam and schedule another day to appear.
I was then told I'm probably not going to get to go to the Aspen shared vacation this year, which is a monumental bummer, being that last year was one of the best times of my life.
The whole day really put a damper on what was a good few days of renewal and personal growth.
Lucky for me all the bad juju wasn't powerful enough to completely wipe out the good juju I've been building up; and I'm happy to say that after a salad and some tea I'm back on top of the world!
oh, and also this...
I awoke around noon, though I was supposed to appear in court to contest a speeding ticket at 9.
I woke up late despite setting a total of 6 alarms on my phone (which was underneath me when I woke (great album!)), having Steve repeatedly call me and setting my faulty alarm clock (which has since been summarily smashed to bits).
I had to post $100 bond today to get off the lam and schedule another day to appear.
I was then told I'm probably not going to get to go to the Aspen shared vacation this year, which is a monumental bummer, being that last year was one of the best times of my life.
The whole day really put a damper on what was a good few days of renewal and personal growth.
Lucky for me all the bad juju wasn't powerful enough to completely wipe out the good juju I've been building up; and I'm happy to say that after a salad and some tea I'm back on top of the world!
oh, and also this...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
HALLOWEEN - What little my camera's dying battery allowed me to document
Michael Winkler wearing one of my tags and being a very bad Santa at the Corner Bistro
Steve dressed as a woman. Sara dressed as a man. And me dressed in generally shiny things, I'm leaning in and thus you can't see my name tag. My shiny costume was essentially a vehicle for the name tags which I interchanged throughout the evening. I believe at this moment it read "Blow The Plumber".
I made a JOE THE GHOSTBUSTER name tag in case i wanted to put on my Ghostbusters jumpsuit I stole from jason who stole it from someone. I also had a YOU ARE JOE THE GHOSTBUSTER. While I decided not to wear it and instead wear shiny flowy things and various other name tags, I still brought the ghostbusters nametags with us. Emerging from the subway platform at the W4th street stop out to the street took quite a while and involved taking babysteps with a mob of costumed travelers all being squeezed through halls and stairwells. It was a foreshadowing of the disgusting mob party outside. I never thought I would see a party that rivaled Uconn's Spring Weekend for disgusting waste of a mob. During this subway herding debacle we were shoved near a man in a ghostbusters outfit. I gave him the Joe the Ghostbuster nametag, but he didn't find it all that funny and instead demanded one that said "Winston"...the black ghostbuster. Racist Ghostbuster
Part of a family dressed as Russian Dolls
A not so shocking political statement amongst a set of beautifully crafted Jack-O-Lanterns in Abington Square.
Probably the best Jack-O-Lantern I've ever seen
Obama is a Long Legged Mack Daddy
Pastor James Manning PhD of the All The Land Anointed Holy World Missionary Church in Harlem.
This man has a deep seeded, lord-inspired hatred of the "long legged freak" Obama "HE'S A MACK DADDY!"
I do suggest you scan All The Land Anointed Holy's YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/user/ATLAHWorldwide )there are hundreds of videos, almost all are hilariously insane.
"Only a fool would cast a vote for that white trash"
He Visto Algo
The phrase is well known to Nuevo Yorkinos
"If you see something, say something!"
This Spanish take on that theme shows a suspicious package, which if seen, one should not keep to themselves!
Later that same day Steve DUBS inspects a suspicious package we found across the street from city hall. Within a stone's throw of the former WTC we found this gift-wrapped block of cement with balloons attached to it. It's as though someone was trying to make a point that you could leave an absurdly suspicious package pretty much anywhere in public and it could be easily unnoticed. I love Sundays.
"If you see something, say something!"
This Spanish take on that theme shows a suspicious package, which if seen, one should not keep to themselves!
Later that same day Steve DUBS inspects a suspicious package we found across the street from city hall. Within a stone's throw of the former WTC we found this gift-wrapped block of cement with balloons attached to it. It's as though someone was trying to make a point that you could leave an absurdly suspicious package pretty much anywhere in public and it could be easily unnoticed. I love Sundays.
Sleepyhead
One of my new fascinations.
People sleeping on the subway.
A party i wish to be party to as seldom as possible.
People sleeping on the subway.
A party i wish to be party to as seldom as possible.
Little Man
One of my new fascinations.
Steve melting the hair off of an Indian man that he has shrunken at my Feeling the Heat press conference.
See: http://radicalnormality.blogspot.com/2008/10/press-conference-imminentpsyc.html
Steve melting the hair off of an Indian man that he has shrunken at my Feeling the Heat press conference.
See: http://radicalnormality.blogspot.com/2008/10/press-conference-imminentpsyc.html
Friday, October 31, 2008
[spam] ...be careful with their e-mails so that your parcel will not be in danger with their evil plans
DHL Nigeria Head Office
70 International Airport Road
Mafoluku,Lagos
TEL: :+234 8075963642.
Customers Service Hours--Monday To Saturday:
Office Hours Monday To Saturday:
Attention:Beneficiary,
The DHL Delivery Service Company are hereby passing an essential message to all our valuable customers to be very careful while presenting their receivers residential address to avoid wrong delivery.
This is the DHL courier service company mailing you as per your parcel that was brought to this company to be delivered to you by one Miss.Stella Johnson of ZENITH BANK PLC, along the delivery process there came a misunderstanding between you and the nicon insurance company in regard of their request as per their insurance certificate which happens to be course of your parcel pending for the past One Year.
Meanwhile we are hereby happy to inform you that the DHL Company has finalized everything with the nicon insurance company of Nigeria as the company organization has also listed 24 valuable parcels to be intact in their office after the released of the parcels from the nicon insurance company. We are happy to inform you once again that your parcel that contain ATM CARD worth the sum of $2 million dollars is among the 24 parcels listed which is now in our office and also with your name as the receiver despite that we lost your private residential addresss, which is an indication that you can now re-send your residential address to back to the DHL company where your parcel can be delivered to you without hesitation with Meanwhile remember that the sender of this parcel Miss Stella Johnson of ZENITH BANK PLC still owes this company the sum of $150 before incident occured, know you that this company has spent out of their income in the process by recovering back your parcel so dear customer we once again appreciate your patronage in our favour.
Without hesitations you are to pay for just the balance left by yourn sender via western union so that your parcel can be delivered to your residential address before it accumulate a demurrage after one week only,as you know your parcel is not just an ordinary parcel but with a huge amount and I think you understand what I mean by accumulating a demurrage? Which you will not allow to happen to your recovery parcel that almost gone if not for the love that the good God have for you by favoring
you with his favour because it was God who did it not by your power but by the spirit say the lord. We assure you that your parcel will arrive at your country in two days time and it will get to your door step the third OR fourth day as soon as this company receive the balance left by your sender and the tracking number of your parcel will be sent to you via e-mail immediately so that you can track it yourself to see your parcel coming on the way and you will also know when it will arrive at your country because we operate in trust and loyalty in your favour. And also the DHL courier Service Company is hereby to inform all their customers by eradicating all their communication with the scam mails that are going all-over the world be careful with their e-mails so that your parcel will not be in danger with their evil plans.
DHL provides access to a growing global market place through a network of supply chain, transportation, business and related information services.
GET BACK TO THIS OFFICE WITH THESE INFORMATIONS AFTER PAYMENT
SENDERS NAME-----------------------------
SENDERS ADDRESS--------------------------
MTCN-------------------------------------
SENDERS COUNTRY--------------------------
RECIEVERS COUNTRY: WEST AFRICA (NIGERIA)
RECIEVERS NAME:EMMANUEL OSAGHAE
TEXT QUESTION: GOD IS
TEXT ANSWER:GOOD
AMOUNT TO BE PAID:$150.00 USD
DHL is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of ATM CARD/packages and information. In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown into adverse family of companies -a DHL that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.
Call me for more details:+234 8075963642
Reply to this email: dhlclearancedesk@live.com
WAITING TO READ YOUR E-MAIL.
YOURS AFFECTIONATLY.
MR.SAM BROWN.
PHONE: +234 8075963642
DHL COURIER MANAGING DIRECTOR.
Thanks for your Co-operation.
For the Ikeja Branch Manager
DHL Express Services Lagos Nigeria
70 International Airport Road
Mafoluku,Lagos
TEL: :+234 8075963642.
Customers Service Hours--Monday To Saturday:
Office Hours Monday To Saturday:
Attention:Beneficiary,
The DHL Delivery Service Company are hereby passing an essential message to all our valuable customers to be very careful while presenting their receivers residential address to avoid wrong delivery.
This is the DHL courier service company mailing you as per your parcel that was brought to this company to be delivered to you by one Miss.Stella Johnson of ZENITH BANK PLC, along the delivery process there came a misunderstanding between you and the nicon insurance company in regard of their request as per their insurance certificate which happens to be course of your parcel pending for the past One Year.
Meanwhile we are hereby happy to inform you that the DHL Company has finalized everything with the nicon insurance company of Nigeria as the company organization has also listed 24 valuable parcels to be intact in their office after the released of the parcels from the nicon insurance company. We are happy to inform you once again that your parcel that contain ATM CARD worth the sum of $2 million dollars is among the 24 parcels listed which is now in our office and also with your name as the receiver despite that we lost your private residential addresss, which is an indication that you can now re-send your residential address to back to the DHL company where your parcel can be delivered to you without hesitation with Meanwhile remember that the sender of this parcel Miss Stella Johnson of ZENITH BANK PLC still owes this company the sum of $150 before incident occured, know you that this company has spent out of their income in the process by recovering back your parcel so dear customer we once again appreciate your patronage in our favour.
Without hesitations you are to pay for just the balance left by yourn sender via western union so that your parcel can be delivered to your residential address before it accumulate a demurrage after one week only,as you know your parcel is not just an ordinary parcel but with a huge amount and I think you understand what I mean by accumulating a demurrage? Which you will not allow to happen to your recovery parcel that almost gone if not for the love that the good God have for you by favoring
you with his favour because it was God who did it not by your power but by the spirit say the lord. We assure you that your parcel will arrive at your country in two days time and it will get to your door step the third OR fourth day as soon as this company receive the balance left by your sender and the tracking number of your parcel will be sent to you via e-mail immediately so that you can track it yourself to see your parcel coming on the way and you will also know when it will arrive at your country because we operate in trust and loyalty in your favour. And also the DHL courier Service Company is hereby to inform all their customers by eradicating all their communication with the scam mails that are going all-over the world be careful with their e-mails so that your parcel will not be in danger with their evil plans.
DHL provides access to a growing global market place through a network of supply chain, transportation, business and related information services.
GET BACK TO THIS OFFICE WITH THESE INFORMATIONS AFTER PAYMENT
SENDERS NAME-----------------------------
SENDERS ADDRESS--------------------------
MTCN-------------------------------------
SENDERS COUNTRY--------------------------
RECIEVERS COUNTRY: WEST AFRICA (NIGERIA)
RECIEVERS NAME:EMMANUEL OSAGHAE
TEXT QUESTION: GOD IS
TEXT ANSWER:GOOD
AMOUNT TO BE PAID:$150.00 USD
DHL is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of ATM CARD/packages and information. In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown into adverse family of companies -a DHL that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.
Call me for more details:+234 8075963642
Reply to this email: dhlclearancedesk@live.com
WAITING TO READ YOUR E-MAIL.
YOURS AFFECTIONATLY.
MR.SAM BROWN.
PHONE: +234 8075963642
DHL COURIER MANAGING DIRECTOR.
Thanks for your Co-operation.
For the Ikeja Branch Manager
DHL Express Services Lagos Nigeria
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Debate @ Solar1
Solar powered live outdoor screening of the 3rd presidential debate at the wonderful Solar 1 Green Energy, Arts & Education Center www.solar1.org/
Monday, October 27, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
B
A McCain volunteer claimed that she "was robbed at knife point of $60 in front of an ATM in Bloomfield, part of Pittsburgh, PA. When her attacker, a 6-ft, 4-in tall, 200 lb. dark-skinned black man saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, he kicked and punched the woman, and then carved the letter “B” into the side of her face."
Turns out she actually just made it all up. She carved a "B" into her own face! In fact, since she did it in the mirror and she's an idiot, she carved it BACKWARDS!
Turns out she actually just made it all up. She carved a "B" into her own face! In fact, since she did it in the mirror and she's an idiot, she carved it BACKWARDS!
[spam] Matter Of Urgent
Please Always Endeavour to reply via Email: ups.claims @yahoo.com.hk
UPS COURIER COMPANY
12 Air Port Road,G.R.A.
West Africa, Nigeria.
Good Day.
I am Mrs.Kate Hood Of the Ups Courier Company,I have a Confirmable BankDraft of 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds),that i deposited the Draft with UPS COURIER SERVICE,West Africa,I travelled out of the country for my hollidays and I will not return back untill the end of Augs.I want you to try all your best and contact the UPS COURIER SERVICE as soon as possible to know when you will get this package because of the expiring date.For your information,I have paid for the Security Keeping Fee, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attackin your Country.
The only money you will send to the UPS COURIER SERVICE to deliver your Draft direct to your postal Address in your country is $150 USD only being Delivering Charge Fee of the Courier Company so far.Again,don't be deceived by any person to pay any other money except $150 USD being the Delivering Charge .I would have paid that but they said no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage. You have to contact the UPS COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of your Draft with this below information.
============================================
Contact Person: Mr. Halmiton White
Email Address: ups.claims @yahoo.com.hk
Telephone: +234-806-673-3007
Fax: +234-806-673-3007
============================================
Lastly, You are advice to send the below information to the Courier Company:
Your Full Name:
Postal address:
Direct telephone number:
Do send it to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Kate Hood.
UPS COURIER COMPANY
12 Air Port Road,G.R.A.
West Africa, Nigeria.
Good Day.
I am Mrs.Kate Hood Of the Ups Courier Company,I have a Confirmable BankDraft of 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds),that i deposited the Draft with UPS COURIER SERVICE,West Africa,I travelled out of the country for my hollidays and I will not return back untill the end of Augs.I want you to try all your best and contact the UPS COURIER SERVICE as soon as possible to know when you will get this package because of the expiring date.For your information,I have paid for the Security Keeping Fee, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attackin your Country.
The only money you will send to the UPS COURIER SERVICE to deliver your Draft direct to your postal Address in your country is $150 USD only being Delivering Charge Fee of the Courier Company so far.Again,don't be deceived by any person to pay any other money except $150 USD being the Delivering Charge .I would have paid that but they said no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage. You have to contact the UPS COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of your Draft with this below information.
============================================
Contact Person: Mr. Halmiton White
Email Address: ups.claims @yahoo.com.hk
Telephone: +234-806-673-3007
Fax: +234-806-673-3007
============================================
Lastly, You are advice to send the below information to the Courier Company:
Your Full Name:
Postal address:
Direct telephone number:
Do send it to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Kate Hood.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America
This is a 16 page letter form one of America's largest political action committees: Focus on the Family. And by focus on the family they mean focus on the gays. Focus on the Family and their founder DOCTOR James Dobson have some serious sexuality issues! Of course the millions of Christians who support Focus on the Family probably don't really want to impose Dobson's holy terror. They just don't want their children being taken on field trips to crack infested gay commie orgy brothels. Two examples of what their lobbyists have accomplished in 2008:
-Blocking the Matthew Shepard Act, the 1st federal Hate Crimes legislation that covers homosexuality, gender identity, or gender (groups that make up almost a quarter of all hate crime victims)
-Block ENDA - the 1st federal law that prohibits employment discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation. As it stands only 19 states have their own laws preventing this, thus without a federal law it is LEGAL in 31 states to FIRE someone for being gay.
This letter leans heavily on their homosexual obsessions.
It's one of those dance the fine line between laugh out loud funny, and these people actually are incredibly influential scary.
Here are some highlights:
On schools:
Elementary schools now include compulsory training in varieties of gender identity in Grade 1, including the goodness of homosexuality as one possible personal choice. Many parents tried to “opt out” their children from such sessions, but the courts have ruled that they cannot do this, noting that education experts in the government have decided that such training is essential to children's psychological health.
On Pornography:
It’s almost impossible now to keep any children from seeing pornography. The Supreme Court in 2011 nullified all Federal Communications Commission restrictions on obscene speech or visual content in radio and TV broadcasts, and television programs at all hours of the day now contain explicit portrayals of sexual acts.
Pornographic magazines are now openly displayed in gas stations, grocery stores, and newsstands (as they have been in some European countries for several years). In addition, law enforcement officials can no longer stop the distribution of child pornography, after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the such distribution violated freedom of speech and interstate commerce laws.
On Guns:
It is now illegal for private citizens to own guns for self defense in eight states, and the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships. Citizens in those areas who are discovered owning guns have been subjected to heavy fines and imprisonment. Inner-city violent crime has increased dramatically.
On Terrorism:
President Obama directed U.S. intelligence services to cease all wiretapping of alleged terrorist phone calls unless they first obtained a specific court warrant for each case. Terrorists captured overseas, instead of being tried in military tribunals, are now given full trials in the U.S. court system, and they have to be allowed access to a number of government secrets to prepare their defense.
Since 2009 terrorist bombs have exploded in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing hundreds, and the entire country is now fearful, for no place seems safe. President Obama in each case has vowed “to pursue and arrest and prosecute those responsible,” but no arrests have yet been made. However, he has also challenged the nation to increase foreign aid to the poorer nations that were the breeding grounds for terrorism, so that people could have an opportunity to escape from the cycles of poverty and violence in which generations had been trapped.
On Universal Healthcare:
The great benefit is that medical care is now free for everyone -- if you can get it. Now that health care is free it seems that everybody wants more of it.
The waiting list for prostate cancer surgery is 3 years. The waiting list for ovarian cancer is 2 years. Just as the Canadian experience had shown prior to 2008 with its nationalized health care, so now in the US only a small number of MRIs are performed — only 10% of what they were in the U.S. in 2008 – because they are just too expensive, and they turn out to discover more problems that need treatment, so they are almost never authorized.
HERE'S MY FAVORITE PART:
Because medical resources now must be rationed carefully by the government, people over 80 have essentially no access to hospitals or surgical procedures. Their “duty” is increasingly thought to be to go home to die, so that they don’t drain scarce resources from the medical system. Euthanasia is becoming more and more common.
Read the full letter here: http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/pdfs/10-22-08_2012letter.pdf
-Blocking the Matthew Shepard Act, the 1st federal Hate Crimes legislation that covers homosexuality, gender identity, or gender (groups that make up almost a quarter of all hate crime victims)
-Block ENDA - the 1st federal law that prohibits employment discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation. As it stands only 19 states have their own laws preventing this, thus without a federal law it is LEGAL in 31 states to FIRE someone for being gay.
This letter leans heavily on their homosexual obsessions.
It's one of those dance the fine line between laugh out loud funny, and these people actually are incredibly influential scary.
Here are some highlights:
On schools:
Elementary schools now include compulsory training in varieties of gender identity in Grade 1, including the goodness of homosexuality as one possible personal choice. Many parents tried to “opt out” their children from such sessions, but the courts have ruled that they cannot do this, noting that education experts in the government have decided that such training is essential to children's psychological health.
On Pornography:
It’s almost impossible now to keep any children from seeing pornography. The Supreme Court in 2011 nullified all Federal Communications Commission restrictions on obscene speech or visual content in radio and TV broadcasts, and television programs at all hours of the day now contain explicit portrayals of sexual acts.
Pornographic magazines are now openly displayed in gas stations, grocery stores, and newsstands (as they have been in some European countries for several years). In addition, law enforcement officials can no longer stop the distribution of child pornography, after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the such distribution violated freedom of speech and interstate commerce laws.
On Guns:
It is now illegal for private citizens to own guns for self defense in eight states, and the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships. Citizens in those areas who are discovered owning guns have been subjected to heavy fines and imprisonment. Inner-city violent crime has increased dramatically.
On Terrorism:
President Obama directed U.S. intelligence services to cease all wiretapping of alleged terrorist phone calls unless they first obtained a specific court warrant for each case. Terrorists captured overseas, instead of being tried in military tribunals, are now given full trials in the U.S. court system, and they have to be allowed access to a number of government secrets to prepare their defense.
Since 2009 terrorist bombs have exploded in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing hundreds, and the entire country is now fearful, for no place seems safe. President Obama in each case has vowed “to pursue and arrest and prosecute those responsible,” but no arrests have yet been made. However, he has also challenged the nation to increase foreign aid to the poorer nations that were the breeding grounds for terrorism, so that people could have an opportunity to escape from the cycles of poverty and violence in which generations had been trapped.
On Universal Healthcare:
The great benefit is that medical care is now free for everyone -- if you can get it. Now that health care is free it seems that everybody wants more of it.
The waiting list for prostate cancer surgery is 3 years. The waiting list for ovarian cancer is 2 years. Just as the Canadian experience had shown prior to 2008 with its nationalized health care, so now in the US only a small number of MRIs are performed — only 10% of what they were in the U.S. in 2008 – because they are just too expensive, and they turn out to discover more problems that need treatment, so they are almost never authorized.
HERE'S MY FAVORITE PART:
Because medical resources now must be rationed carefully by the government, people over 80 have essentially no access to hospitals or surgical procedures. Their “duty” is increasingly thought to be to go home to die, so that they don’t drain scarce resources from the medical system. Euthanasia is becoming more and more common.
Read the full letter here: http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/pdfs/10-22-08_2012letter.pdf
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Chomsky on the election
Excerpt:
"To say it doesn't make any difference who wins is simply to express your contempt for the general population, because it does make a difference. A lot of what they say is correct. The two parties are effectively factions of one party, the Business party, but the factions are somewhat different. And as I mentioned, over time the differences show up in benefits, working conditions, wages, things that really matter to people. So yes, there's a difference. It's a narrow difference and the spectrum within the political system is well to the right of popular opinion. Incidentally the public is well aware of it. So 80% of the population say that the government is run by, I'm quoting, a few big interests looking out for themselves, not the population. And you can argue about the details, but the picture is essentially correct, and they don't like it. Nevertheless, there is some difference, and you have to make a choice. If you're in a swing state, you have to ask, is this difference enough for me to pick the lesser of the two evils, and there's nothing wrong with picking the lesser of two evils. The cliché makes it sound like you're doing something bad, but no, you're doing something good if you pick the lesser of two evils. So is it worth doing that, or is it worth trying to act to create a potential alternative? For example, should I vote Green, because maybe someday their party will be a real alternative? Should I express my disdain for the right wing orientation of both parties by not voting, or should I pick the lesser of the two evils, thereby helping people? OK, that's a decision people have to make."
McCurmudgeonliness
"I really have a problem with that, and I'm not the only one"
-Crazy Tracy: Real American
.
Leave it to Al Jazeera to be the network that does an expose on lies fueling the Republican campaign
.
McCain is forced to calm some of the rabid crowds that he and Palin have been fueling with their lies and Obama = terrorist speech. Note that his response to the final woman is "He's not" and not "He's not, but so what if he was?"
.
An example of one of McCain's "Robocalls", an inexpensive way to widely and quickly disseminate lies. Ironically robocalls were first used by Karl Rove in 2000 When McCain was beating George W. Bush in the Republican primary. McCain was smeared for having "interracial children" and his wifes drug addiction, these smears were the begining of the end of his 2000 run for the nomination. They were also cited by Colin Powell as an example of the dirty campaign practices that are among the reasons he has chosen to endorse Barack Obama
Monday, October 20, 2008
A Story - Circa 2/2/2007
Go to:
http://files.ww.com/files/28744.html
Click on
"Right-Click here to download the file NormsStory.mp3"
http://files.ww.com/files/28744.html
Click on
"Right-Click here to download the file NormsStory.mp3"
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
THE GREATEST MUSIC VIDEO I'VE EVER SEEN
World On Fire by Sarah McLachlan
http://worldonfire.ca/donations.html
World On Fire by Sarah McLachlan
http://worldonfire.ca/donations.html
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Press Conference Imminent!...psyc
I've spent the last few days organizing a press conference for tomorrow. It looks like it's gonna be a smashing success!
I nabbed me a US congressman!
Representative Anthony Weiner of the Energy and Commerce Committee to be exact!
He's a badass, check it out:
We're releasing a report called Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and Rising Temperatures in the United States.
And we're also highlighting Weiner as
...as I was typing this blog entry aboot how excited I was aboot the press conference I had organized I got a call from Weiner's Deputy Communications Director informing me that the Congressman will likely have to stay in DC and will have to cancel his appearance at our press conference...
poo
I nabbed me a US congressman!
Representative Anthony Weiner of the Energy and Commerce Committee to be exact!
He's a badass, check it out:
We're releasing a report called Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and Rising Temperatures in the United States.
And we're also highlighting Weiner as
...as I was typing this blog entry aboot how excited I was aboot the press conference I had organized I got a call from Weiner's Deputy Communications Director informing me that the Congressman will likely have to stay in DC and will have to cancel his appearance at our press conference...
poo
Saturday, October 11, 2008
...poor Pedro
Today the phone rang and Steve picked it up, the person on the line
a)Didn't seem to hear us
b)Appeared to be in another conversation
c)Appeared to be breaking up with her boyfriend in this other conversation
It was intensely strange, we sat there for minutes and listened to this girl dump her boyfriend.
...intensely strange
a)Didn't seem to hear us
b)Appeared to be in another conversation
c)Appeared to be breaking up with her boyfriend in this other conversation
It was intensely strange, we sat there for minutes and listened to this girl dump her boyfriend.
...intensely strange
Street Crusaders
Honestly, you have to see these guys to believe them!
They dress like He-Man, Lawrence of Arabia and Hallie Selassie had a threesome and rant about God, race, the New World Order and more!
And they're angry!
I think its just meant to be a spectacle to attract attention and money, cuz its just TOO ridiculous.
They dress like He-Man, Lawrence of Arabia and Hallie Selassie had a threesome and rant about God, race, the New World Order and more!
And they're angry!
I think its just meant to be a spectacle to attract attention and money, cuz its just TOO ridiculous.
Steve Equinox
There is a rumor that you can stand an egg upright on the equinox. While many, including Steve DUBS and the West Wing's CJ Craig have claimed to have successfully done this feat, the rumor itself is of course pure bullshit. The truth is that you can simply stand some eggs upright if you try long and hard enough. It's just that no one seems to be inclined to try that hard at it unless it is actually the equinox.
I played around with Steve's arm while he was passed out long enough that I found the point where the arm would stay upright like this. I am amazed that neither the process, nor the resultant bout of laughter woke this fallen man from his slumber.
I played around with Steve's arm while he was passed out long enough that I found the point where the arm would stay upright like this. I am amazed that neither the process, nor the resultant bout of laughter woke this fallen man from his slumber.
...the world may never know.
As I drifted home I noticed that along the same path that I was walking there was a glob of blood every foot or two. The blood was fresh, I don't mean that I knelt down and did the old dip my fingers in and touch my tongue as I intently rub my fingers together thing from the movies, I could see that it wasn't dry. This trail continued along 14th street from 2nd to 7th avenue. I thought that at any moment I would catch up to this person hobbling along with some sort of massive wound, being ignored by the fearful masses. I never came upon this person and the trail finally ended in this series of blood splotches and a clump of tissue in from of the YMCA near 8th avenue.
Night Church
There's a majestic Gothic church a few doors down from me, tucked away such that you really have to look to notice it. The only activity it sees is being rented out by a Russian youth church program on Sundays. I often see them setting up, I like to play guitar on the steps right across from the church. For example: http://radicalnormality.blogspot.com/2008/09/jerusalem.html
DUMBO EMPIRE
The empire state building framed through the Manhattan bridge, down under the Manhattan bridge overpass
Le Sac
This dog walker stopped for Bekka. He immediately handed her a bag of poop, and she cordially took it from him and continued the interaction. He later told her that he hates canvassers. I've always said, the ultimate revenge for being made to feel a little bad by being asked to do something good is to make a canvasser hold a bag of poop.
I love the posture of the bulldog!
I love the posture of the bulldog!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Believe
Baltimore's city slogan was once "The City That Reads". Feeling hypocritical they renamed it to "The Greatest City in America".
Now its slogan is simply "BELIEVE"
These folks at Environment Maryland certainly do!
Now its slogan is simply "BELIEVE"
These folks at Environment Maryland certainly do!
Tappan Zee
They decided to build a bridge over the widest point of one of the longest rivers in the world because they wanted to be close to NYC, but far enough away that they didn't fall under the jurisdiction of the Port Authority.
COUNTRY FIRST!
COUNTRY FIRST!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Jerusalem
I was playing guitar by my place on West 22nd street when a gentleman named Nick Chelmu came out of his place across the street and heard me playing Oh Comley by Neutral Milk Hotel. He came over and introduced himself and I played a few more NMH songs and he sang along. Then he went in his place and grabbed a drum and we started rocking out a little bit for the masses. This is us crudely yet dutifully playing Jerusalem by Dan Bern.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Red Sean and Nori
Tried to go for evil, and in spite of the accented red, they actually seem more wholesome than they really are!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Nader Raid
Two old ladies I helped out.
They were trying to get signatures to put Nader on the ballot in NY. When I walked up to the lady in white, who was doing it by herself at the time, I could see that she was struggling. She was holding this tattered blue Nader/Gonzalez sign, yelling out at people to "HELP RALPH NADER" "DO YOU WANT TO PREVENT THERMONUCLEAR WAR!?!?!" "HELP RALPH NADER"
I walked up to her while I was still on the phone with my friend Sean and asked what she needed. I knew I probably couldn't help because I assumed it was ballot access, and you need to be registered to vote in NY to sign that petition. I informed her that I was a CT voter and couldn't help her. She said "are you sure?" "Please we only need a few more signatures...today is the last day to get ballot access"
.... (ponders momentarily) "...Sean...I'll call you back, I gotta canvass some signatures for Ralph Nader"
And off I went trying to get people to stop and talk to this woman. After just a few moments it became clear that I had chosen an incredibly difficult undertaking. And this is coming from a man who runs street canvasses to get strangers to GIVE YOU THEIR MONEY for your cause. All I wanted today was their signature, but as soon as the heard me say Nader they would be gone with a puff of smoke like the road runner.
I knew I had to get far more tenacious, but a few things needed to happen to de-hippieliberalcommiefagpinkojunkiefy the situation. I had to take off my guitar, I had to have the old lady stand aside and be quiet and put her damn tattered sign down, and now the other one's returned and wondering what this wacky guy is doing harassing her friend. "Please ladies, I promise you I will get you these signatures, but I need to take off this guitar, so I need you to stand off to the side here and watch it for me." They skeptically abode.
With the distractions gone and my hands freed I set to the task at hand. They needed 18 signatures; thought I could do it in 5 minutes, it actually took me about a half hour, but I did it. (and the next day Nader turned in 27,000 signatures to Albany; 15,000 are required to get on the ballot, we'll see what happens...)
And with each one I got the ladies were more and more amazed at the ease with which I was stopping people, getting them to sign, or just brushing it off if they didn't. I feel like they never seemed to really get the part about me running a canvass office, and that a big part of what I train people to do is very applicable to this.
It felt really good to be using my skills for something so purely righteous and selfless, particularly with the thought of working on the elections and working to get Obama elected looming over the horizon.
Slowly as I was racking up the names, the woman in black (who clearly wore the pants in the friendship) kept coming up to me and insisting on buying me coffee, dinner, anything. I was just intent on getting these last few names and continuing my day as a trubador. She eventually convinced me to give her my address so she could send me "something" that the Nader folks will be sending her in about a month.
These ladies were truly amazed by my abilities. They couldn't tell if I was an angel or a sorcerer!
...neither can I sometimes...
They were trying to get signatures to put Nader on the ballot in NY. When I walked up to the lady in white, who was doing it by herself at the time, I could see that she was struggling. She was holding this tattered blue Nader/Gonzalez sign, yelling out at people to "HELP RALPH NADER" "DO YOU WANT TO PREVENT THERMONUCLEAR WAR!?!?!" "HELP RALPH NADER"
I walked up to her while I was still on the phone with my friend Sean and asked what she needed. I knew I probably couldn't help because I assumed it was ballot access, and you need to be registered to vote in NY to sign that petition. I informed her that I was a CT voter and couldn't help her. She said "are you sure?" "Please we only need a few more signatures...today is the last day to get ballot access"
.... (ponders momentarily) "...Sean...I'll call you back, I gotta canvass some signatures for Ralph Nader"
And off I went trying to get people to stop and talk to this woman. After just a few moments it became clear that I had chosen an incredibly difficult undertaking. And this is coming from a man who runs street canvasses to get strangers to GIVE YOU THEIR MONEY for your cause. All I wanted today was their signature, but as soon as the heard me say Nader they would be gone with a puff of smoke like the road runner.
I knew I had to get far more tenacious, but a few things needed to happen to de-hippieliberalcommiefagpinkojunkiefy the situation. I had to take off my guitar, I had to have the old lady stand aside and be quiet and put her damn tattered sign down, and now the other one's returned and wondering what this wacky guy is doing harassing her friend. "Please ladies, I promise you I will get you these signatures, but I need to take off this guitar, so I need you to stand off to the side here and watch it for me." They skeptically abode.
With the distractions gone and my hands freed I set to the task at hand. They needed 18 signatures; thought I could do it in 5 minutes, it actually took me about a half hour, but I did it. (and the next day Nader turned in 27,000 signatures to Albany; 15,000 are required to get on the ballot, we'll see what happens...)
And with each one I got the ladies were more and more amazed at the ease with which I was stopping people, getting them to sign, or just brushing it off if they didn't. I feel like they never seemed to really get the part about me running a canvass office, and that a big part of what I train people to do is very applicable to this.
It felt really good to be using my skills for something so purely righteous and selfless, particularly with the thought of working on the elections and working to get Obama elected looming over the horizon.
Slowly as I was racking up the names, the woman in black (who clearly wore the pants in the friendship) kept coming up to me and insisting on buying me coffee, dinner, anything. I was just intent on getting these last few names and continuing my day as a trubador. She eventually convinced me to give her my address so she could send me "something" that the Nader folks will be sending her in about a month.
These ladies were truly amazed by my abilities. They couldn't tell if I was an angel or a sorcerer!
...neither can I sometimes...
Friday, August 15, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Paper Face
A man on the L train platform made this of me. Its cut out of a small piece of black paper. The guy didn't want money, he wanted me to let him do 2 so he could keep one.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)