The Simpsons Movie about 23 months ago

Landline here. As a matter of fact, I din't even get a cell until last year.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/02/how_will_obamas.php#more


In some ways, it's like a slap in the face to people like Dead Prez, Public Enemy, and Immmortal Technique who have been politically engaged for years and the public at large was either scared to death or tuned them out in favor of the standard hip hop formula.

http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000078.html

Instead of it being some German translation, it stands for Manufacturing Killers Utilizing Lethal Tradecraft Requiring Assassinations.

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/04/is-aid-good-for-africa/
Is aid good for Africa?

These are from 2003

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I'd want to see how many other famous people might have been wiped out by these agencies or got wiped out by unsavory organizations but were aided and abetted by intel agencies that looked the other way. I would also want to find exactly what the CIA knows about UFOs and ETs.

True love? Are you kidding?

Love at first sight DOES NOT EXIST! So what if two people hit it off instantly? What that tells me is that there's a potential for a booty call or nothing more than an infatuation, plain and simple.

1. Pay off all my debts
2. Pay off my parents' mortgage
3. Invest in stocks, bonds, etc.
4. Operate a business

There are some people who have recently let it be known that they don't like it when others use the word "gay" in describing something as stupid. As a matter of fact, some gay rights groups even got on Katy Perry's case last summer for having a song called "UR So Gay" in which she blasts a boyfriend for being a loser. Quite frankly, I have no sympathy for these homosexual groups because they themselves hijacked the word "gay" in the '60s and '70s when they stated their movement. After all, a half century ago, being gay meant being happy. Using the word in its original meaning today usually gets a person ridiculed. As a matter of fact, in 1997, a town on Martha's Vineyard changed its name from Gay Head to Aquinnah (meaning land under the hill) because of political correctness surrounding that three-letter word. So, I don't want to hear about the word being hijacked in the names of sophomoric humor and lack of coolness when the homosexual agenda first hijacked the word for their own political purposes when the word gay was exclusively used to describe a person who was in a happy state of mind.

On December 17, 2003, I graduated from NC State with a degree that I thought would lead to me working in a fun occupation, Tourism. Well, where I'm at today is definitely different than what I planned. I'm still in the same miserable small town that I couldn't wait to leave upon graduating from high school. I'm still working at a part-time job that was supposed to be a stopgap for a better-paying occupation (December 15 marked four years since I started working there).

I got to this point by not properly planning. Once my internship ended in Myrtle Beach, I should have gone to the Career Center much sooner to find out what kind of jobs were there. At the very least, I would have something to fall back on. Secondly, I should have kept in contact with my internship agency by promoting other NC State students to intern for them the following summer. Had I not burned that bridge, I might have been able to work at a resort or even plan all kinds of activities for tourists. Finally, if I had taken the time to plan things throughout winter 2004, I would have never had the worst year of my life! After all, it was poor planning that caused me to go to Nashville for almost two months. I should have waited until a more opportune time rather than jumping up to say yes to Trey under some kind of pressure. If I had waited, I could have been a supervisor in Orlando in the summer of 2004, my bank account wouldn't have been closed, I would have never been in a position to go to UNCG and leave after one semester due to burnout, and I would have some kind of job security.

Currently, I'm working at a job that offers no benefits, and I just got a pay raise last year. The underlying sense from society is that an undergraduate degree has become so devalued that it might as well be equivalent to a high school diploma. If that's so, where is the money for grad school? I have enough problems paying back student loans right now. Given that going to graduate school costs at least five figures, how can I even think about attending when loans are basically the only way to go and grants are virtually nonexistent? I went to UNCG to get a second undergraduate degree in Accounting. I am currently leaning towards Transportation or Transportation Planning because I'd like to plan America's future transportation projects rather than working for someone in that industry. Being a train station attendant is working for someone else in the travel industry. I'd have liked to be part of the leadership, but since this recession is preventing people from traveling, it may be time for me to give up on this dream and move on to something else.

I will forever be kicking myself for waht happened in May 2007. I had an interview lined up with a California tour operating company. The first day, a Tuesday, the interviewer had language problems with a group and had to reschedule. After waiting around on the second day, I decided to go to the Triangle to fight off boredom and to dig up an old newspaper article. Oops, it turned out that the interviewer had called while I was away. Since I had worked all day the following day, we had to rescheudle for that Friday. I checked my e-mail on Thursday. Nothing during the day. The following day was supposed to be the interview
at 5:00 my time. I was at work until 3:15 due to late trains and my new boss meeting with my then-station supervisor. I did not get a phone call after that Wednesday. So, imagine the feeling of horror that I received when I checked my e-mail that Friday night--an e-mail was sent to me Thursday evening. In all honesty, that was my last good chance at a job in the travel and tourism industry.

During my birthday last year, I did a chart of where I'd like to be and what I would to do withing the next five years. Honestly, other than throwing out old newspapers to be less of a packrat (as well as to put the past behind me), going back to school and investing in things like stocks, I'm not sure that any of my goals are going to be possible within the given time frame due to this economy possibly blowing up into another Great Depression.

Edwards and Huckabee: Pseudo Populists
The proof is in the pudding:
-Both are globalists
-The only real good thing about Huck was the FairTax. Everything else was standard social conservative fluff
-Edwards had already lost points with me when he pretty much blew off NC State. Without NCSU, Johnny Boy would have never gone to law school at UNC. Also, the $400 haircut exposed him as as phony before the NAtional Enquirer toppled him with the Reille Hunter scandal

Unhappy in Victory, Unhappy in Defeat
When they were winning earlier this decade, I never got the sense that conservatives were really all that happy--rather than celebrating, they used the victories to demonize their opponents and anyone who slightly disagreed with them. When the public got tired of the right's bullying act, the elephants were tossed out. If the GOP et al weren't happy in vicotry, I could only imagine how angry they'd be in defeat.

WHAT Bradley Effect?
The era where white voters lied to pollsters' faces ended on November 4. Now, Obama must right the ship. During the campaign, it was one thing after another--Obama's not black enough, he's too black, he's a Muslim, he's a (pseudo) Christian, he's in league with Farrakhan--but none of those associations stuck. Now, whether the 44th president gets a short or a long honeymoon period will be left up to the press. However, I do know this, if Obama fails to turn this country around, every negative stereotype about black people (like being incompetent leaders) will (unfairly) stick to us as a race--and push racial relations back a quarter century.

Black Prez No Longer an Imagination
The really good thing about Obama achieving the impossible is that we no longer have to hear about how Bill Clinton was out "first black president." Instead of hope, we will finally have the real thing. Also, we should no longer have to ask about "the black leader." Ever since the CIA and the FBI took out MLK in '68, "the next black leader" has been an irritant. Jesse Jackson (Senior), Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan have all been given that title. No longer! All of these demagogues have finally been pushed into irrelevance as an old mindset that no longer works has been replaced with a new one that will work. The Black Leader will reside on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 20 days.

Conservatives are back to ridiculing the Electoral College. Before the 2000 election, they were imploring the Republicans in Congress to get rid of it. Then when, Bush narrowly won the electoral vote, they got religion and proclaimed that "the EC works" and had nothing else to say about voting reform. On his November 5th, Mark Levin pretty much called the EC "irrelevant." He sure as hell wasn't saying that eight years ago.

Now, that the impossible has become possible, the black community shouldn't overdo things. Obama, if anything, will have a shorter honeymoon period than any other president because of the economy's sad shape. We shouldn't expect him to be a miracle worker, but we can't start acting like a bunch of damn fools either.

On the Jeremiah Wright controversy, it seems to me that the very same people who blasted him as being anti-American were the same ones who agreed with Jerry Falwell's post-9/11 statements where the late president of Liberty University blamed everyone from feminists to gays for 19 terrorists killing 2,750 people in NYC. So, according to these folks, it was okay to blame hedonism for Hurricane Katrina (as well as invoking God's name) but completely sacrilegious if someone cites America's ugly history and foreign policies as a possible as possible causes of a terrorist attack. What a bunch of fucking hypocrites such self-righteous people are.

Historical Significance
Personally, I never thought that anyone other than a WASP male would get elected. So much for that mindset. Whether Barack Obama ends up the real deal or just a token like JFK being a token Catholic president will be up to history.

Governor's Race
Here in North Carolina, three very likable candidates (the only contest where I could have voted for any of the listed candidates) ran to replace term-limited Mike Easley. I voted for his successor, Lieutenant Governor Beverly Perdue, because she had some good ideas and also has ties to the the parks and recreation industry. Her major party opponent, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, could have taken some of his pro-transit ideas up to Raleigh, but his problems were the fact that it was a Democratic year and his speech at the '04 GOP convention highly praising the current lame duck in chief. As a result, the Charlotte Curse lives on. Finally, there was Libertarian Mike Munger, a Duke professor who would have been a refreshing alternative to the major parties.

And Now The Hard Part
I have been saying since April 2006 that no matter who succeeded Bush that the 44th president would have it really rough simply because of the mess that person would have to clean up—two wars and possible third with Iran, an economy that is going in the crapper faster than the Lions' season, a rising deficit, worldwide terrorism, and the decline of America as a superpower. I've asked often “who would even want this job?” Obama has a lot to clean up—and a lot of impatient Americans. Think about it, if he stumbles, the 44th prez will have lot in common with the 31st, and none of it good. This would be due to Americans having such a short attention span that if things aren't back to the good days of 1997-2000, Barack Obama will be looked at as a failure. Since we're bailing out all of these companies, I think that thing will get worse...and worse, not things getting worse before they get better. My reaction to the new president is to be cautious.

Palin: Strong Woman or Delicate Flower?
Which one is it conservatives? Once she was selected as John McCain's running mate, the Republican base went gaga. When all that stuff came out about her daughter being pregnant among other things, it was almost as if a Bible got burned. Then again, with their track record against strong women, social conservatives have mostly ripped female political figures who don't fit their mold of what a woman should be, hence the delicate flower reference.

Lousy Alternatives
This was a very bad year for any alternatives to the two-party system given the overwhelming early support for Obama, Hillary, and Ron Paul among the youth. Anyhow, the main third party and independent candidates were underwhelming. Ralph Nader took money from globalists earlier this decade and is part of the problem. Bob Barr—even though he apologized for it—was a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens back in 1998. The southern-based group is a spinoff of old White Citizens Council groups and is pretty much the Klan in business suits. Chuck Baldwin is so far to the right that he was simply unelectable. As far as Cynthia McKinney goes, she's the polar opposite of Baldwin, and she got into trouble with Capitol Hill police in 2006.

My name would be The Lone Wolf, and my finisher would be the STF.

All throughout this year, talk radio host Allan Handelman has given pro-offshore drilling guests a chance to make their case for why drilling should be done. He has also asked them whether the oil drilled would stay in the U.S. So far, none of his guests have been able to answer that question.

The truth is for all of this talk that drilling will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, it is only a short term fix. What will happen once America runs out of domestic oil? Uncle Sam surely can't go and beg the big bad Saudis for some given that India and China are already on America's tail when it comes to oil consumption and superpower status. In other words, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT DRILLING WILL KEEP U.S. IN THE U.S. BECAUSE, IT WON'T THE U.S.! So when I hear all these AM talk show hosts, pundits, and politicos spew the same Republican lines and blaming environmentalists for $4/gallon gas, it is way beyond disingenuous, it serves as a major distraction to the long term when the whole world runs out of oil.