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Well, if we want a president with a great imagination, Osama/Obama is our man!
We really can’t call them gaffes anymore since there have been so many umm, untruths, exaggerations, prevarications. Let’s just call a spade a spade: Osama/Obama is a baldfaced LIAR!
This time he told a whopper in New Mexico on Memorial Day. The only other explanations are that he suffers from premature dementia or he is just plain dumb. Making a pitch for both the Vet vote and the Jewish vote, (both of which groups already know what he is), he claimed his uncle helped free the victims of Auschwitz. He’s been exposed–again!
Howzit World and welcome back to Truthful News, formerly TruthfulNews.com,
Here’s my own two-cents worth regarding the propaganda of our American politics: It’s of course never left up to random chance but our global public is not supposed to know this lest our global propaganda defeats its own intended purpose. Now-a-days the destiny and welfare of a large nation such as our United States is much too important to leaving it up to the random voting chance of our brainwashed public therefore as a matter of practicality our American Presidents are picked way ahead of time. In our current situation a woman long-aspired to be our first female American President and in her corner is her husband who just-so-happens to be a former American President, however, as usual the majority of our American voters still remains to be of our older Caucasian generation in comparison to our younger generation of voters and as such, many would not willingly accept the notion of having a female American President due to the societal norms in which they grew up in, however, when we place a Caucasian female candidate who has an ex-President husband by her side in her corner of the political arena in contrast to a fairly unknown Afro-American male new-comer, well, that’s when the idea of having a Caucasian female President may not seem so terrible after all. Even if she failed to obtain the majority of votes, it’s still only a simple matter of employing plan “B” by nullifying a bunch of the votes in order to fit the given agenda or in other words it’s who-she-knows rather than what-she-knows, …sounds familiar, yes? Tsark out.
Okay, torture sucks. So, too, does the idea of people being detained without right to counsel, without the freedom to protest their status, etc.
Now let’s move on to a hypothetical.
Picture yourself in a situation in which you have excellent reason to believe that your family has been targeted by some fanatical, religious nutcase and the nutcase’s buddies. You have irrefutable information that their plan is to execute you, your wife, kids, grandkids, friends, neighbors, everyone you know, and they’ve already shown their expertise at such executions by killing thousands of others. Their Nutcase Army is on record as despising you and everyone you know and love—as well as everyone you may not know and love—and is pledged to make all of you dead and their modus operandi shows they won’t conduct the slaughter mercifully.
Now, remembering that this is all hypothetical, let’s say you capture a few of them and are able to detain and chain them in your basement. Also, you reasonably suspect some of them have information that could save the lives of your loved ones, neighbors, of everyone you know. Assume too that there are no available law enforcement agencies to deal with these suspects. It’s all up to you.
You have a major decision to make: Do you accord them all the sacred rights and privileges of prisoners in American jails, including hotshot lawyers and extensive law libraries so they can appeal their detention, daily exercise and gyms so they can work out and three squares a day of their preferred comestibles to make them more fit to kill you, and literature so they can read how much their god hates you and prayer mats 5 times daily so they can pray that they figure a way to murder you?
Or, always being humane as you would be with dogs, do you attempt to extract the information that could lead to saving many thousands of lives? Torture is out of the question–no maiming or mutilation permitted, no racks, no But are you morally entitled to, say, deprive them of sleep, bombard them with loud, offensive noise such as rap music, intimidate them with your basset hound, make them stand naked in the downtown square, even pretend to drown them?
Keep in mind now, you do not ever endanger their health. Granted, the above won’t exactly leave them in the same state of mind which they exhibited when you caught them; it could render them less murderous—or more. Then again, neither are you the same tranquil person you were before discovering their nefarious scheme to destroy everyone you know. You provide adequate food to sustain them, you allow them to rest after stints of sleep deprivation and to clothe themselves after their excursions downtown and, of course, adequate toilet and showering facilities. You allow them to read and meditate and pray.
All of this within reasonable limits, however: no gourmet meals, no sleeping in til noon, no fancy duds, no Charmin, and no daily showers with Irish Spring and Paul Labrecque shampoo.
At the end of all this, after virtually draining your 401k and your bank account to pay for the upkeep of people sworn to kill you, they surrender the information needed to eradicate the Nutcase Army and their ilk and end their threat to the well-being of you and yours. You proceed to dispatch that danger and, the threat removed, you drain the remainder of your funds to pay their freight home to the squalid life they had been accustomed to.
Okay. So, have you acted morally and righteously in employing your tactics to save many thousands? I say, Yes. Have you violated the God-given rights of your prisoners, United Nations and Geneva Convention protocols, and perturbed the Brits? Probably.(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/terrorism.terrorism) Have you done the right thing? I think so, even if all those whose lives you preserved don’t agree. Only survivors determine right and wrong.
As Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf said of bin Laden when asked if he should be forgiven, “Forgiveness is up to God. I just hope we hurry up the meeting.” Whether that Hypothetical You—or our country–will be forgiven for our tactics–or for GITMO, Abu Ghraeb, and purported terrorist prison ships– will also be up to God. Personally, I think He will understand and cut us some slack on that meeting.
Comestibles? Labrecque shampoo? Oh me gosh, yu muss be reelly edjumacated fo be usin’ dem kinda beeg werds? Me non-superstitious atheist but I otherwise sadly agree with you within the sense that life is too often not fair, that violence begets violence, and that we are after all innately a predatory species with the lack of foresight in our propensity to outbreed our global food supply if left unchecked. I further agree with the logic of voluntarily striving to have just 2 offspring per individual (or 2-per-couple) towards stabilizing our global breeding rate in order to free our family species from all of these needed contemporary and necessary multiple constraints such as wars, superstitions (including organized religiosity), propaganda, etcetera, that is needed to avoid the devastating scenario which a never-ending cycle of global mass famine would surely hatch if our global breeding rate were not placed into check. In other words as bad as it is today, I accept it as the lesser of either of two unfortunate inevitable evils or else global mass famine would have been so much, much more worse compared to all of the seemingly insanities induced upon our family species today but I must regress, …comestibles(?)…now wat da kinda freekin’ heck vernacular is dat, wassa madda wit you!!?
Lalor. Good one, cuz. The answer is neither. I was born turgid and developed into a cretin but now I’m just a full fledged bombastic simpleton and whatever you call me just please don’t call me late for dinner, okay? Tsark out.
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In other news:
In further regards to American Presidential politics I’m still convinced the process is predetermined behind public view no matter what the outcome may be. As of to-date I’m still under the impression the seemingly competition between either a Caucasian female personality which our public has long known and is already comfortably familiar with and who has so-called “connections” versus a fairly unknown Afro-American male newcomer is designed to place the female into the Presidential seat but if not, then I’ll concede it was pre-orchestrated to put an Afro-American male into the Presidential seat which our majority of voters who are Caucasian and of the older generation would not normally accept the notion of having an Afro-American male into the Presidential seal due to their ingrained societal norms unless it appeared to be a matter of having to choose between a male versus a female. In other words, if the competition appeared to be between that of a Caucasian male versus a Caucasian female then the majority of voters would undoubtedly be bias towards the Caucasian male, and likewise if the competition appeared to be between that of a Caucasian male versus an Afro-American male the vote count would also automatically sway towards the Caucasian male. The only way I can see how we can have our voting majority into accepting either a female or an Afro-American male occupy the Presidential seat is to have the competition appear to be between either a Caucasian female versus an Afro-American male. As for me, I don’t vote but if I had my way I’m in favor of speeding up the evolutionary process by placing an Afro-American female lesbian-homosexual atheist into the Presidential seat and that should pretty much cover it? Tsark out.
I rarely devote this space to anything but political matters but hereby make an exception for a movie review, of sorts.
American Beauty is classified as a comedy by Moviefone, which is ironically comedic in and of itself. Even describing it as a black comedy—a term which will definitely be declared non-PC and banned if Obama becomes our president—doesn’t satisfactorily describe this flick. Films such as Fight Club, Natural Born Killers, the Kill Bill series all plumb the depths of Hollywood’s collective and twisted violent psyche. American Beauty exposes the depths of Tinsel Town’s despair.
This now-8 year old film is truly an exceptional excursion into nihilism, even for Hollywood. It succeeds in portraying a middle class America that is so superficial and devoid of redeeming value that life itself is rendered meaningless. The protagonist is so riddled with angst that he makes angst seem like fun.
The Cast of Characters:
Lester—suicidal middle aged failure in a corrupt corporate world; fantasizes about pedophilia
Carolyn—his cold, distant wife who beds an associate to get ahead, becomes intrigued with pistols
Jane—their depressed, teen daughter who hates her parents and beds her teen neighbor
Ricky—the drug dealing, borderline-Columbine neighbor kid, who offers to kill Lester for Jane
Angela—Jane’s bff, pretty, shallow, promiscuous, airhead whose conceit betrays her self-doubt
Colonel Fitts—Ricky’s dad, brutal gun-loving Marine, latent homosexual
The plot is almost irrelevant and can easily be surmised from the cast of characters: Lester quits his meaningless job, gets another job slapping up burgers, discovers Carolyn’s affair, lusts after Angela, spares Angela from penetration when she says she’s a virgin, gets hit on by the colonel who initially suspected he was Ricky’s homosexual lover, has his brains blown out by said colonel, and dies with a contented smile on his face.
American Beauty manages to denigrate not only middle class America, but corporate life, America’s teens, and even the Marine Corps. The casting of Chris Moore—the FBI traitor in Breach—as Colonel Fitts was no coincidence either.
I can’t say American Beauty wasn’t a bad watch. Hey, even my wife called it “good” and it garnered a slew of Academy Awards and Oscars can’t be wrong, right? What always strikes me, though, is the Hollywood penchant for depicting others as dysfunctional when there are more dysfunctional people per square mile in Hollywood than anywhere else on the planet!
When can we expect to see Hollywood Beauty? Much of it could be shot in rehab facilities.
There has been a remarkable silence emanating from Rep. John Conyers (D- MI) concerning an issue very dear to his heart: reparations for American Blacks to compensate them for the injustice that was slavery. A serious observer of the political scene in June 2008 must wonder why and perhaps be suspicious of his recent quiescence?
Conyers climbed aboard the Reparations Express in 2000, stressing that the movement was “not coming forward in an accusatory tone toward any citizens or their ancestors,” but that “we simply think that Congress should take a look at the lingering effects of slavery so that we may get a deeper appreciation of them and reach some consensus about what the solutions may be. The issue of reparations is not something beyond our understanding,” Conyers wrote. “It’s a pretty fundamental issue if you look at it. I’m saying it’s time we did.” (http://www.answers.com/topic/john-conyers)
I have a few disquieting differences with that statement, as well as with Conyers’ apparent de-emphasis of the “issue.”
First, if his tone was not “accusatory” then what is it? It certainly isn’t laudatory or complimentary to even suggest that anyone or any entity owes compensation to Blacks for a vile, worldwide, institution that was ended in the United States over seven generations ago at a cost of hundreds of thousands of casualties in our Civil War. As for the “lingering effects of slavery,” that contention too is baffling for the same reason, namely that any victims of Black slavery are long dead and any residual effects that carry over for that length of time must surely be attributable to the victims rather than the perpetrators of the evil of slavery. Finally, if the issue is “fundamental,” I would ask, fundamental to what?
However, more to the point, and aside from the fact that other supporters of the idea of reparations for Blacks include “Reverend” Louis Farrakhan and others of his ilk and aside from the absurdity and impracticality of exacting reparations from Whites when thousands of freed Blacks also enslaved their own in the 1800’s, the whole idea of reparations is as repugnant and as racist as slavery.
My purpose here is not to debate Black reparations. Rather, it involves my initial rhetorical question: Why are Blacks such as Rep. Conyers so quiet on the issue of late?
This is just conjecture but could it be that Conyers and his compatriots know that to talk about reparations now, when Senator Barack Hussein Obama potentially could become the next president of the United States of America, would spook the living bejesus out of many White supporters?
It’s just a thought but I think Whites in America should consider what that would mean. It could make $4.00 a gallon—or $20.00 a gallon– gas prices seem reasonable.
I read similar article also named Hello world!, and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Hello world!, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
My interpretation is that Mr. WorldPress merely started a new blog under the “Uncategorized” category, named it Truthful News and started the conversation off by saying “Hello world!”. I further interpret this blog is meant to be the take-off of what used to be the TruthfulNews.com forum which had a fairly good cast of Users for quite a good while until it eventually got ruined by at least one personality disorder who deliberately ruined the old forum for everyone else by taking advantage of TruthfulNews.com’s liberal policy on freedom of speech.
Since this particular blog is under the “Uncategorized” category I expect to see a variety of new topics that may show up at any given moment providing our writers are sharing what we honestly believe is Truthful News and are willing to agree that we can disagree in a mature and intelligent manner or at the very worse at least use sarcastic humor for the sake of humor but never for malice. As for me, if I get bored reading something and can’t think of anything funny to say then I’ll likely skip over it rather than waste my valuable time complaining or disagreeing about it.
As for blogging, I’m still unsure how this all works? I registered but did not open a blog, per se, and so far I still can’t edit anything I’ve written under this particular blog? I expected to see an “Edit” button somewhere like other forums have but there is none that I see? I have to admit though, I’ve barely investigated the rest of WorldPress and the most I’ve done is visit this particular blog and then registered to edit a syntax error but still can’t edit anything. I suspect it may require me to actually start up a new blog before I can edit anything anywhere on WorldPress, that’s my guess?
And it’s just my own personal interpretation that the main emphasis of this particular blog is more of a “Truthful News” chat-room-like blog rather than anything else and as such our world is invited to join in and say whatever we want whenever we want.
In summary if anyone has something truthful they wish to express to our world then there’s the offer to do it here, but otherwise I sure as heck hope it’s not about superstition, sports, nor more politics or else I might just suspect it’s a boring neo-communist plot to overthrow my freakin’ mind?
Picturesque Gloucester, “America’s Oldest Seaport,” should now also be labeled “Home of America’s Dumbest Teens.” Whatever their motivation, fast tracking to adulthood, looking for love and attention in all the wrong places, or just plain, old bubbling hormones, at least seventeen of Gloucester High School’s 1200 students—mostly sophomores—have intentionally gotten themselves with child. (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080620/pregnancy_pact_080620/20080620?hub=CTVNewsAt11)
In days of old, that was crudely labeled getting knocked up but these kids don’t see it that way at all. In the very bad old days, teens who had gotten pregnant were packed off to another locale—to a distant relative or a home for unwed mothers—and, if they returned at all, their young motherhood wasn’t advertised. These Gloucester girls not only planned their pregnancies so they could raise their babies together but were disappointed if they weren’t impregnated and, no doubt, will try, try, try again. Those who did succeed were high-fiving one another in the halls of Gloucester High.
I served in the trenches of high school as a teacher for 28 years, so I know something of how these girls think, or used to know. Most are good kids, romantics to the core, infatuated with 13 year old Juliet’s affair with Romeo, somewhat distraught over their unfortunate denouement, who then went on their merry way, content with just being teenagers. I’m also familiar with their teen angst but most lived through it.
Today, they don’t all live through it…
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As far as I can recall, no one ever said that war is fun. As far as I can recall, no one ever said that prisons should be fun places, either.
Still, the Muslim prisoners being kept in Guantanamo have it pretty damned good especially considering why they are there–as terrorist suspects who not only despise America but who may have killed Americans and who, given the chance, would kill as many of our troops in Iraq as they could and perpetrate even more heinous atrocities on our soil.
We could house them and treat them in a Club Med atmosphere, accord them all the rights and privileges accorded our domestic prisoners, including law libraries, gym facilities, conjugal visits (i.e., sexual romps), etc. and then release them so they could continue their terrorist ways.
Instead, we merely provide, “basic supplies, such as clothing, towels, sheets, blankets, soap, shampoo, toothbrush and toothpaste. They also are given a copy of the Koran and three ‘culturally appropriate’ meals. Prayer rugs also are distributed, and a recorded call to prayer is broadcast five times a day.”
Nevertheless, Muslim convert and former Army chaplain, James Lee, and Amnesty International USA, (AIUSA), are currently protesting the horrendous treatment of the terrorist suspects at GITMO.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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May 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
OBAMA, AUSCHWITZ, AND PINOCCHIO
Well, if we want a president with a great imagination, Osama/Obama is our man!
We really can’t call them gaffes anymore since there have been so many umm, untruths, exaggerations, prevarications. Let’s just call a spade a spade: Osama/Obama is a baldfaced LIAR!
This time he told a whopper in New Mexico on Memorial Day. The only other explanations are that he suffers from premature dementia or he is just plain dumb. Making a pitch for both the Vet vote and the Jewish vote, (both of which groups already know what he is), he claimed his uncle helped free the victims of Auschwitz. He’s been exposed–again!
For that and other truth-challenged claims see: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/27/obama-my-grandfather-liberated-auschwitz/
Next thing you know, Osama/Obama will say he saved Hillary from those dastardly snipers in Bosnia.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Howzit World and welcome back to Truthful News, formerly TruthfulNews.com,
Here’s my own two-cents worth regarding the propaganda of our American politics: It’s of course never left up to random chance but our global public is not supposed to know this lest our global propaganda defeats its own intended purpose. Now-a-days the destiny and welfare of a large nation such as our United States is much too important to leaving it up to the random voting chance of our brainwashed public therefore as a matter of practicality our American Presidents are picked way ahead of time. In our current situation a woman long-aspired to be our first female American President and in her corner is her husband who just-so-happens to be a former American President, however, as usual the majority of our American voters still remains to be of our older Caucasian generation in comparison to our younger generation of voters and as such, many would not willingly accept the notion of having a female American President due to the societal norms in which they grew up in, however, when we place a Caucasian female candidate who has an ex-President husband by her side in her corner of the political arena in contrast to a fairly unknown Afro-American male new-comer, well, that’s when the idea of having a Caucasian female President may not seem so terrible after all. Even if she failed to obtain the majority of votes, it’s still only a simple matter of employing plan “B” by nullifying a bunch of the votes in order to fit the given agenda or in other words it’s who-she-knows rather than what-she-knows, …sounds familiar, yes? Tsark out.
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June 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 am
TORTURE OR REASONABLE FORCE?
Okay, torture sucks. So, too, does the idea of people being detained without right to counsel, without the freedom to protest their status, etc.
Now let’s move on to a hypothetical.
Picture yourself in a situation in which you have excellent reason to believe that your family has been targeted by some fanatical, religious nutcase and the nutcase’s buddies. You have irrefutable information that their plan is to execute you, your wife, kids, grandkids, friends, neighbors, everyone you know, and they’ve already shown their expertise at such executions by killing thousands of others. Their Nutcase Army is on record as despising you and everyone you know and love—as well as everyone you may not know and love—and is pledged to make all of you dead and their modus operandi shows they won’t conduct the slaughter mercifully.
Now, remembering that this is all hypothetical, let’s say you capture a few of them and are able to detain and chain them in your basement. Also, you reasonably suspect some of them have information that could save the lives of your loved ones, neighbors, of everyone you know. Assume too that there are no available law enforcement agencies to deal with these suspects. It’s all up to you.
You have a major decision to make: Do you accord them all the sacred rights and privileges of prisoners in American jails, including hotshot lawyers and extensive law libraries so they can appeal their detention, daily exercise and gyms so they can work out and three squares a day of their preferred comestibles to make them more fit to kill you, and literature so they can read how much their god hates you and prayer mats 5 times daily so they can pray that they figure a way to murder you?
Or, always being humane as you would be with dogs, do you attempt to extract the information that could lead to saving many thousands of lives? Torture is out of the question–no maiming or mutilation permitted, no racks, no But are you morally entitled to, say, deprive them of sleep, bombard them with loud, offensive noise such as rap music, intimidate them with your basset hound, make them stand naked in the downtown square, even pretend to drown them?
Keep in mind now, you do not ever endanger their health. Granted, the above won’t exactly leave them in the same state of mind which they exhibited when you caught them; it could render them less murderous—or more. Then again, neither are you the same tranquil person you were before discovering their nefarious scheme to destroy everyone you know. You provide adequate food to sustain them, you allow them to rest after stints of sleep deprivation and to clothe themselves after their excursions downtown and, of course, adequate toilet and showering facilities. You allow them to read and meditate and pray.
All of this within reasonable limits, however: no gourmet meals, no sleeping in til noon, no fancy duds, no Charmin, and no daily showers with Irish Spring and Paul Labrecque shampoo.
At the end of all this, after virtually draining your 401k and your bank account to pay for the upkeep of people sworn to kill you, they surrender the information needed to eradicate the Nutcase Army and their ilk and end their threat to the well-being of you and yours. You proceed to dispatch that danger and, the threat removed, you drain the remainder of your funds to pay their freight home to the squalid life they had been accustomed to.
Okay. So, have you acted morally and righteously in employing your tactics to save many thousands? I say, Yes. Have you violated the God-given rights of your prisoners, United Nations and Geneva Convention protocols, and perturbed the Brits? Probably.(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/terrorism.terrorism) Have you done the right thing? I think so, even if all those whose lives you preserved don’t agree. Only survivors determine right and wrong.
As Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf said of bin Laden when asked if he should be forgiven, “Forgiveness is up to God. I just hope we hurry up the meeting.” Whether that Hypothetical You—or our country–will be forgiven for our tactics–or for GITMO, Abu Ghraeb, and purported terrorist prison ships– will also be up to God. Personally, I think He will understand and cut us some slack on that meeting.
Tags: GOD, TERRORISM, TORTURE, VICTORY
June 4th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Comestibles? Labrecque shampoo? Oh me gosh, yu muss be reelly edjumacated fo be usin’ dem kinda beeg werds? Me non-superstitious atheist but I otherwise sadly agree with you within the sense that life is too often not fair, that violence begets violence, and that we are after all innately a predatory species with the lack of foresight in our propensity to outbreed our global food supply if left unchecked. I further agree with the logic of voluntarily striving to have just 2 offspring per individual (or 2-per-couple) towards stabilizing our global breeding rate in order to free our family species from all of these needed contemporary and necessary multiple constraints such as wars, superstitions (including organized religiosity), propaganda, etcetera, that is needed to avoid the devastating scenario which a never-ending cycle of global mass famine would surely hatch if our global breeding rate were not placed into check. In other words as bad as it is today, I accept it as the lesser of either of two unfortunate inevitable evils or else global mass famine would have been so much, much more worse compared to all of the seemingly insanities induced upon our family species today but I must regress, …comestibles(?)…now wat da kinda freekin’ heck vernacular is dat, wassa madda wit you!!?
June 4th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Tsark? Were you born a twit or is it a recent development?
June 4th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Lalor. Good one, cuz. The answer is neither. I was born turgid and developed into a cretin but now I’m just a full fledged bombastic simpleton and whatever you call me just please don’t call me late for dinner, okay? Tsark out.
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In other news:
In further regards to American Presidential politics I’m still convinced the process is predetermined behind public view no matter what the outcome may be. As of to-date I’m still under the impression the seemingly competition between either a Caucasian female personality which our public has long known and is already comfortably familiar with and who has so-called “connections” versus a fairly unknown Afro-American male newcomer is designed to place the female into the Presidential seat but if not, then I’ll concede it was pre-orchestrated to put an Afro-American male into the Presidential seat which our majority of voters who are Caucasian and of the older generation would not normally accept the notion of having an Afro-American male into the Presidential seal due to their ingrained societal norms unless it appeared to be a matter of having to choose between a male versus a female. In other words, if the competition appeared to be between that of a Caucasian male versus a Caucasian female then the majority of voters would undoubtedly be bias towards the Caucasian male, and likewise if the competition appeared to be between that of a Caucasian male versus an Afro-American male the vote count would also automatically sway towards the Caucasian male. The only way I can see how we can have our voting majority into accepting either a female or an Afro-American male occupy the Presidential seat is to have the competition appear to be between either a Caucasian female versus an Afro-American male. As for me, I don’t vote but if I had my way I’m in favor of speeding up the evolutionary process by placing an Afro-American female lesbian-homosexual atheist into the Presidential seat and that should pretty much cover it? Tsark out.
June 7th, 2008 at 1:55 am
I rarely devote this space to anything but political matters but hereby make an exception for a movie review, of sorts.
American Beauty is classified as a comedy by Moviefone, which is ironically comedic in and of itself. Even describing it as a black comedy—a term which will definitely be declared non-PC and banned if Obama becomes our president—doesn’t satisfactorily describe this flick. Films such as Fight Club, Natural Born Killers, the Kill Bill series all plumb the depths of Hollywood’s collective and twisted violent psyche. American Beauty exposes the depths of Tinsel Town’s despair.
This now-8 year old film is truly an exceptional excursion into nihilism, even for Hollywood. It succeeds in portraying a middle class America that is so superficial and devoid of redeeming value that life itself is rendered meaningless. The protagonist is so riddled with angst that he makes angst seem like fun.
The Cast of Characters:
Lester—suicidal middle aged failure in a corrupt corporate world; fantasizes about pedophilia
Carolyn—his cold, distant wife who beds an associate to get ahead, becomes intrigued with pistols
Jane—their depressed, teen daughter who hates her parents and beds her teen neighbor
Ricky—the drug dealing, borderline-Columbine neighbor kid, who offers to kill Lester for Jane
Angela—Jane’s bff, pretty, shallow, promiscuous, airhead whose conceit betrays her self-doubt
Colonel Fitts—Ricky’s dad, brutal gun-loving Marine, latent homosexual
The plot is almost irrelevant and can easily be surmised from the cast of characters: Lester quits his meaningless job, gets another job slapping up burgers, discovers Carolyn’s affair, lusts after Angela, spares Angela from penetration when she says she’s a virgin, gets hit on by the colonel who initially suspected he was Ricky’s homosexual lover, has his brains blown out by said colonel, and dies with a contented smile on his face.
American Beauty manages to denigrate not only middle class America, but corporate life, America’s teens, and even the Marine Corps. The casting of Chris Moore—the FBI traitor in Breach—as Colonel Fitts was no coincidence either.
I can’t say American Beauty wasn’t a bad watch. Hey, even my wife called it “good” and it garnered a slew of Academy Awards and Oscars can’t be wrong, right? What always strikes me, though, is the Hollywood penchant for depicting others as dysfunctional when there are more dysfunctional people per square mile in Hollywood than anywhere else on the planet!
When can we expect to see Hollywood Beauty? Much of it could be shot in rehab facilities.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:53 am
There has been a remarkable silence emanating from Rep. John Conyers (D- MI) concerning an issue very dear to his heart: reparations for American Blacks to compensate them for the injustice that was slavery. A serious observer of the political scene in June 2008 must wonder why and perhaps be suspicious of his recent quiescence?
Conyers climbed aboard the Reparations Express in 2000, stressing that the movement was “not coming forward in an accusatory tone toward any citizens or their ancestors,” but that “we simply think that Congress should take a look at the lingering effects of slavery so that we may get a deeper appreciation of them and reach some consensus about what the solutions may be. The issue of reparations is not something beyond our understanding,” Conyers wrote. “It’s a pretty fundamental issue if you look at it. I’m saying it’s time we did.” (http://www.answers.com/topic/john-conyers)
I have a few disquieting differences with that statement, as well as with Conyers’ apparent de-emphasis of the “issue.”
First, if his tone was not “accusatory” then what is it? It certainly isn’t laudatory or complimentary to even suggest that anyone or any entity owes compensation to Blacks for a vile, worldwide, institution that was ended in the United States over seven generations ago at a cost of hundreds of thousands of casualties in our Civil War. As for the “lingering effects of slavery,” that contention too is baffling for the same reason, namely that any victims of Black slavery are long dead and any residual effects that carry over for that length of time must surely be attributable to the victims rather than the perpetrators of the evil of slavery. Finally, if the issue is “fundamental,” I would ask, fundamental to what?
However, more to the point, and aside from the fact that other supporters of the idea of reparations for Blacks include “Reverend” Louis Farrakhan and others of his ilk and aside from the absurdity and impracticality of exacting reparations from Whites when thousands of freed Blacks also enslaved their own in the 1800’s, the whole idea of reparations is as repugnant and as racist as slavery.
I refer the reader to the African-American organization, Project 21, (http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PRReparations802.html), to a very angry White organization, http://www.wewontpay.com/pl10.html, and to a rabid Black reparations website, http://www.blackcommentator.com/10_reparations.html.
My purpose here is not to debate Black reparations. Rather, it involves my initial rhetorical question: Why are Blacks such as Rep. Conyers so quiet on the issue of late?
This is just conjecture but could it be that Conyers and his compatriots know that to talk about reparations now, when Senator Barack Hussein Obama potentially could become the next president of the United States of America, would spook the living bejesus out of many White supporters?
It’s just a thought but I think Whites in America should consider what that would mean. It could make $4.00 a gallon—or $20.00 a gallon– gas prices seem reasonable.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I read similar article also named Hello world!, and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me
June 11th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Hello world!, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
My interpretation is that Mr. WorldPress merely started a new blog under the “Uncategorized” category, named it Truthful News and started the conversation off by saying “Hello world!”. I further interpret this blog is meant to be the take-off of what used to be the TruthfulNews.com forum which had a fairly good cast of Users for quite a good while until it eventually got ruined by at least one personality disorder who deliberately ruined the old forum for everyone else by taking advantage of TruthfulNews.com’s liberal policy on freedom of speech.
Since this particular blog is under the “Uncategorized” category I expect to see a variety of new topics that may show up at any given moment providing our writers are sharing what we honestly believe is Truthful News and are willing to agree that we can disagree in a mature and intelligent manner or at the very worse at least use sarcastic humor for the sake of humor but never for malice. As for me, if I get bored reading something and can’t think of anything funny to say then I’ll likely skip over it rather than waste my valuable time complaining or disagreeing about it.
As for blogging, I’m still unsure how this all works? I registered but did not open a blog, per se, and so far I still can’t edit anything I’ve written under this particular blog? I expected to see an “Edit” button somewhere like other forums have but there is none that I see? I have to admit though, I’ve barely investigated the rest of WorldPress and the most I’ve done is visit this particular blog and then registered to edit a syntax error but still can’t edit anything. I suspect it may require me to actually start up a new blog before I can edit anything anywhere on WorldPress, that’s my guess?
And it’s just my own personal interpretation that the main emphasis of this particular blog is more of a “Truthful News” chat-room-like blog rather than anything else and as such our world is invited to join in and say whatever we want whenever we want.
In summary if anyone has something truthful they wish to express to our world then there’s the offer to do it here, but otherwise I sure as heck hope it’s not about superstition, sports, nor more politics or else I might just suspect it’s a boring neo-communist plot to overthrow my freakin’ mind?
June 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Nice website!!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Gforex…
this is comprehensive, but this article seems to be too short and i’m sure that you can explain a little more. thanks…
June 17th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Obama didn’t even mention auchwitz in that speech.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:52 am
Picturesque Gloucester, “America’s Oldest Seaport,” should now also be labeled “Home of America’s Dumbest Teens.” Whatever their motivation, fast tracking to adulthood, looking for love and attention in all the wrong places, or just plain, old bubbling hormones, at least seventeen of Gloucester High School’s 1200 students—mostly sophomores—have intentionally gotten themselves with child. (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080620/pregnancy_pact_080620/20080620?hub=CTVNewsAt11)
In days of old, that was crudely labeled getting knocked up but these kids don’t see it that way at all. In the very bad old days, teens who had gotten pregnant were packed off to another locale—to a distant relative or a home for unwed mothers—and, if they returned at all, their young motherhood wasn’t advertised. These Gloucester girls not only planned their pregnancies so they could raise their babies together but were disappointed if they weren’t impregnated and, no doubt, will try, try, try again. Those who did succeed were high-fiving one another in the halls of Gloucester High.
I served in the trenches of high school as a teacher for 28 years, so I know something of how these girls think, or used to know. Most are good kids, romantics to the core, infatuated with 13 year old Juliet’s affair with Romeo, somewhat distraught over their unfortunate denouement, who then went on their merry way, content with just being teenagers. I’m also familiar with their teen angst but most lived through it.
Today, they don’t all live through it…
(See my website for the remainder of this article.)
June 26th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
GITMO: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
June 26th, 2008
As far as I can recall, no one ever said that war is fun. As far as I can recall, no one ever said that prisons should be fun places, either.
Still, the Muslim prisoners being kept in Guantanamo have it pretty damned good especially considering why they are there–as terrorist suspects who not only despise America but who may have killed Americans and who, given the chance, would kill as many of our troops in Iraq as they could and perpetrate even more heinous atrocities on our soil.
We could house them and treat them in a Club Med atmosphere, accord them all the rights and privileges accorded our domestic prisoners, including law libraries, gym facilities, conjugal visits (i.e., sexual romps), etc. and then release them so they could continue their terrorist ways.
Instead, we merely provide, “basic supplies, such as clothing, towels, sheets, blankets, soap, shampoo, toothbrush and toothpaste. They also are given a copy of the Koran and three ‘culturally appropriate’ meals. Prayer rugs also are distributed, and a recorded call to prayer is broadcast five times a day.”
Nevertheless, Muslim convert and former Army chaplain, James Lee, and Amnesty International USA, (AIUSA), are currently protesting the horrendous treatment of the terrorist suspects at GITMO.
(http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200806/NAT20080626b.html)
I wonder if Lee and AIUSA officials witnessed the horrendous events of September 11th, 2001 or if they would care if we suffered another such attack?
War is Hell. Keep that in mind, AIUSA and Mr. Lee!