Saturday, June 28, 2008

Stick a Fork in that Dike, It's Done



So if you didn't notice, like half of the country is under water right now. It looks like a whole bunch of mini-Katrinas. People who were told they would be safe are left with nothing. 

The Mississippi seems mad and all those on her banks are feeling the wrath. I don't know who's fault this is. I don't know if flooding can be blamed on anything. Should people not live so close to the water? Should the levee's be better? Levee... I know a guy named Levy, and I know that dude drove his Chevy to the Levee but the Levee was gone, besides that I never knew shit about em. Since Katrina I've seen that funny lookin word more than I've seen Dutch's1.

So people are upset because they were told that their homes were at very little to no risk of flooding, but then the floods came. We can't say we're surprised to see levee's fail it's a common theme now. But take a look at what other countries have for levee's. I'm no engineer but I'd like to know why ours can't look more like:


















And less like:


















I got that top picture from some Joe-ks.com, he's got a page up showing a bunch of high-tech levee's from around the world. Click on the title of this article to see his collection of levee pictures.

The second is a broken by Katrina levee in New Orleans.




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1- Funny I should say that. 
That was the last thing I wrote yesterday before we packed up for the boat. 
Then randomly I spent the afternoon with 3 gorgeous girls from Holland. 
They spoke Dutch.











Tuesday, June 10, 2008

BadNEWS with E.V.

Just When you thought the Bulls Coaching Saga couldn't get any worse...


VINNY DEL NEGRO!?!?!?!?!
He's never even coached before...
I can't say he's bad but a talent filled team with the #1 pick in the draft should be getting the best coach available not taking a chance on somebody with 0 experience.

I guess I'll have to go for the Celtics next year too.



Saturday, June 7, 2008

Grade A Asshole

So the race for Democratic nominee went pretty wild huh? Everybody knows how large a role race and sex did and will continue to play. Question - Where in the hell was the media and women in general when this shit happened?
The signs were smuggled in (obvious folds in the paper) by 2 guys, Adolfo Gonzalez Jr. and Nick Gemelli. "Iron My Shirt" was an anti-women's rights slogan decades ago, and when asked the 21 year old Gemelli's best reasoning for pulling the stunt was "I just don't think a woman should be President". 
 This guy has an Iron My Shirt sign! In the year 2000. Can you imagine the response a "Go Pick some Cotton" sign, or even something like "I Love Watermelon" would get if it were at an Obama rally? Whoever held that sign would be strung up and demonized quick-fast by our (overt) racism intolerant media. They seem to have no issues with sexism though. $ex $ell$
 I know a lot of men (and some women even) don't think a woman "should" be President. First off if you're a woman and you would buy into a statement like that, I'm sorry for you. That self hate you have deep inside is only gonna eat you up. You need to break those mental chains, the only thing making you inferior is yourself. Men who believe that... I feel sorry for your mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters. 
Basically I equate sexism and racism. (I also equate racism with racism, as in Blacks hating all Whites is not "reverse" racism, it's just racism and it's stupid either way) Growing up in an multi-racial family was great. It taught me how to look past skin color, lucky for me I also had some sisters, plenty of cousins, aunts and a mother. It would be a lie to say I don't see gender first, but there is plenty more to a woman. Some women are smarter than others, and some are smarter than plenty men. The idea that one of the qualifications to lead is being a man is pretty fucked. There's not too much a difference in that thought and the thought that being White is a qualification. 
I'm fuckin tired of people like Mitt Romney saying Barack Obama is "well-spoken". Remember when Chris Rock said they would say that? What do you expect from a well educated politician? It pissed me off for people to criticize Hillary's make-up or outfits, and the whole she almost cried thing. Sexism is alive and well, and I'll tell you I would have been just as proud to cast my vote for a qualified woman as I will be for a qualified minority. 
You slack-jawed yokels don't need to agree with her but you need to accept that she almost was, and may in the future be US President. 
So I says Mabel, Mabel I says/
Do you really think they will let you be the Pres?/
Do you really think they'll salute you in a dress?/
They be like "Oh he speaks well I'm really impressed"
-Incog of 3rdeyelanders from `Whats Yo Problem` 2002

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Classic. Like Lakers vs Celtics

The Fuss is all about NBA finals. Lakers vs Celtics for the 11th time the NBA Finals. 11! These two teams have won 30 out of 61 NBA Championships! I mean The Bulls in all their glory only have 6. I'm not mad... I'm impressed.  
So why is this such a big deal? It must be the nostalgia. Everybody loves looking back to the good ole days, -yeah the good old days the good old days well what was really so good about them shits then?   /  Can it be that it was all so simple then? - Sorry
This game has us all thinking about Magic and Bird, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem, Kevin Mchale, Robert Parish, John Havilcek, Jerry West, James Worthy, Elgin Baylor... Now Garnett, Pierce, Allen, Bryant, Gasol, Odum, Fisher, Walton and Rondo get to be part of that history. 
Phil Jackson gets his own story line. If his Lakers can beat the Celtics he will surpass legendary Celtics coach Red Auerbach as the NBA coach with the most championships. 
The Celtics have 16 championships but it's been a while. Their starting 5 has no Finals experience in all their careers, 52 years all put together. But I don't care. All this season it's been my lifelong dream to see Boston take the crown. Yeah, I've been going for the Celtics since they got Garnett. Except when they faced Chicago of course. Green milkshakes for all!

Name a better rivalry... I'll wait. 



ps.
Jerry West is the NBA logo 
look at the bottom right on 
above pic, it's only fitting 
that he was playing against 
the Celtics in that game.

Sidebar: 
KG was the first in the 
new era of the straight from 
high-school players, paving the way for-
Kobe who has been most successful of the straight 
from high-school players, helping inspire Spike Lee so he could have-
Ray Allen play Jesus Shuttlesworth in He Got Game, 
but he went to college. 
(Shuttlesworth that is)

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Fin


Well what do you know about that? Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for the presidency. The presidency of the United States of America. The CNN says he has 2132 delegates to Hillary Clintons 1925, the magic # is 2118, the Fox News says he has 2143 to her 1919. 
The Democratic National Convention is still 3 months away. The way our system works she can still win by swaying the super-delegates. There is historical precedent. 
She has not conceded the victory and has left the door open to fight on. Now she has reportedly said she is "open"  to being Obama's running mate. I think it's a lil bit too late for her to be open to being Vice President. I already said what I had to say about that, I don't think he owes her anything. I left the door open for myself I said "she should be used in a capacity where she will be effective and respected. As long as she figures out how to get out of this race the right way" Well she didn't, she continues to want to fight it out and at this point I think it is bad for their party. 

So now we have him, the first Mixed Man with a real chance at becoming President of the US. This is a huge day for Mulattos all around the world. I know everyone has been saying he's Black for a long time, but he's mixed. To use the rule that one drop of Black blood makes him Black is about as stupid as slavery to me. 
That does not take away from how big this is historically though. If elected he would still be the first non-White President. I wanna be clear about how I don't think people should vote based on race. It's time for big change in this country. That change could come from many places. I actually would prefer the leading primary vote getters to be neither Republican nor Democrat before I die but I digress. 
It's time for change, we can't keep the same party in office for 12 years when things are going the way they are here. I'll hope that most of us realize that the President has power but is not the king. Our two party system is still a contest where the teams are more similar than different, but we still can't have 1 party steady running us up the down escalator. 

I'm going to hope that Barack Obama can be who he has been saying he is going to be. To those of you who don't know if you can trust him... I haven't met him myself. I can't soothe those fears but I don't think it's really that valid a question honestly. When was the last time you really trusted a politician anyway? 


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