E-rants for the Masses

2009-10-02T13:35:00.001-06:00

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2009-09-29T11:53:00.001-06:00

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2009-07-15T18:39:00.001-06:00

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Dandelion Wine is Good for You

2008-11-10T17:29:00.002-06:00

Listen to Music You'll Love

2008-02-15T16:27:00.001-06:00

A friend has invited you to try Pandora.

I wanted to let you know about Pandora, a free internet radio site based on the Music Genome Project. It helps you discover and listen to great music.

Just tell Pandora the name of your favorite song or artist, and it will create a radio station that plays songs with similar musical attributes.

Here's a link to my profile page. From this page, you can listen to my stations and check out new music I've found on Pandora:

http://www.pandora.com/people/lifer3003

lifer3003 has invited you to try Pandora. Try it now for free.

2008-02-09T22:33:00.001-06:00

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2008-02-08T21:13:00.000-06:00

Hey'n!'n

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2008-02-08T16:23:00.000-06:00

I Feel Your Mystery

2008-02-01T22:20:00.000-06:00

I don't get the fascination. Course i love anything on the news... all local female anchors get me going on my sheets.. i am ashamed.. but i always got god to get me through...

I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night

2008-02-01T21:45:00.000-06:00

I watched that old Madonna movie "Desperately Seeking Susan" on Fuse last night and I dreamed of a young Madonna all night. I was Strange cause i never was into her. The dreams were better than my teenage years...

Hugo Chavez: Noah Chomsky's Frankenstein

2008-01-30T22:00:00.000-06:00

Hugo Chavez waves Noam Chomsky diatribes in front of his spellbound masses a la the great dictator that he is... his megalomania and false populism was inspired by the dark left-wing lord Chomsky: they sense in each other the cult of personality.... it kills me because I am bleeding-heart liberal... only Chomsky's dark heart has always been obvious to me... why can't other good-hearted liberals see the awful effect of Dark Lords like Chomsky and Howard Zinn!

McCain is the Winner!

2008-01-29T20:13:00.000-06:00

What the fuck happens when he has a Vietnam flashback with the nuclear football close by in the sticky hands of his aide???

Porn for the Masses

2008-01-29T18:43:00.001-06:00

We need a new way to judge porn. Why is high art immune?

Lou Dobbs Loves Hispanics

2008-01-29T18:37:00.000-06:00

Lou Dobbs needs to have his Hispanic heritage revealed to the world. Then people will realize what a false, demagogue he loves to be. Please save our country from this man!

God Jesus Christ sometimes Pisses me OFF!

2008-01-28T22:34:00.000-06:00

i mean i love god and all specially when he lays his body up there on that cross makes me feel
like my pain aint nothin... but then suddenly i see some fool on TV saying JESUS JESUS JESUS over and over again and right away i know the mother fucker is a con artist and i get pissed at god for letting hisself be used by us humans that way...

Raised to the level of a GOD

2008-01-28T22:28:00.001-06:00

Yes the day came and our master ordered some pie it tasted so good we ate it fore
the soup was ready and two of us died on the spot.

Marilyn Manson Finds Inner Peace

2008-01-28T22:24:00.000-06:00

Yes Marilyn Manson has found inner peace. He did jujitsu on his soul and found his evil was all right after all. Music fiends everywhere are almost ready for his orgasmic release in their home town.

2008-01-28T22:14:00.000-06:00

We all love the madmen today. The way they piss and moan their life away. Someone once saw evil in this kind of school shooter mayhem. Now the people know it is simply children crying out for help. They expedited many journeys to oblivion. We have to get past this, people!

जॉर्ज इस माय हीरो

2008-01-28T22:08:00.000-06:00

प्रेसिडेंट जॉर्ज बुश शोवेद वही हे इस सुच अ ग्रेट लीडर टुडे। हे क्नोव्स हाउ तो मके अमेरिका स्ट्रोंग। वी अल लोवे हिम हियर इन माय निघ्बोर्हूद। प्लेस दोन'टी लिस्तें तो थे एविल थिंग्स ठाट पीपुल से अबाउट हिम।

पास ऎंड लोवे,
क्रिस्टोफर haan

Sadness and Christ Love

2007-07-04T08:57:00.000-06:00

Sometimes we feel sad, destroyed and fearful and it pushes us into perversion... but god willing, everybody will accept everybody for what they are...

2007-07-04T07:45:00.001-06:00

This is the beginng of a new day for America.

The forces of Neo-Con, Trotskyite geo-politico, real-politick

evil better beware.

Time Magazine Does a Puff Piece on Rupert Murdoch

2007-07-04T07:26:00.000-06:00

I thought this was a funny graphic concerning Rupert Murdoch the money-obsessed media mega-power control freak...

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China for the MASSES

2007-07-04T07:22:00.000-06:00

I see a land of opportunity here....mmmmmmmmmmm.. Lou Dobbs is evil..

ipod: BUYER BEWARE

2007-07-04T06:22:00.001-06:00

Pros:
Great for TEENAGERS!!!
Cons:
Bad for Smartphone VeteransFull user opinion
Apple has beat out Bose Speaker systems for hyping a bad, flawed, and subpar product. The iPhone is nothing but a toy for affluent teenagers or smartphone newbies that have never had their hands on a high-end smartphone like the 8525 and others. None of the technology on the iPhone is new. The only cool thing is the stock UI, which is only "cool" to newbies who fear drop-down menus (Actually you can have Windows Mobile produce a few big buttons on the home screen also, if simplicity is your goal)No removeable battery? (Can't switch to a new battery when you are out and about?)Have to pay Apple to change out battery? (at whatever incredibly high rate they decide on (like the Ipod?)No expandable memory? (4-8 gb is a joke, any veteran will know this and fill this up in the first day)No 3G? (Slower than dialup - Yahoo home page takes 2 minutes...no joke...)$600 for 8GB? (haha....an 8525 beats the Ipod in every category and still sells for 1/2 the price....)No keyboard (with actual buttons for *gasp* input of data/text messaging/etc..?)Camera doesn't take "videos"? What???Can't send pictures? (MMS)Can't change carriers? (stuck with AT&T for 2 years, or more if noone else picks up the phone..)No editing of Office documents?No ability to sync to exchange server? (business users forget it, if you haven't already..)No voice calls through WiFi?No voice dialing? (hahaha.....)

The Palestinian Plight

2007-06-22T20:23:00.000-06:00

Here is a great article that lays out the Palestinian Crisis perfectly:

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The breakdown of the domestic political order in Gaza last week reflects the clear failure of the current Palestinian leadership under Mahmoud Abbas to achieve its people's national rights to statehood, security and a normal life, and the consequent need for a combination of new leadership blood and better policies.

Since their rejection by the people in last year's parliamentary elections because of their endemic corruption and lack of decisive leadership, Fatah and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, have been thrust into political oblivion. With no credibility remaining, disarray among his security forces, defeat in Gaza, and an empty treasury, Abbas dissolves the government and appoints poorly qualified spokespersons with inadequate political and linguistic abilities to communicate and negotiate the Palestinian cause to the outside world.

Unfortunately, regardless of how well-intentioned he is, how moderate his views are or how committed he is to the idea of a two-state solution; Abbas lacks decisiveness, courage, and the ability to inspire and lead. A meticulous review of Abbass meetings with foreign leaders in 2006 (2005 was no different) shows that the Palestinian leadership failed utterly in communicating the messages that ought to have been communicated to these foreign visitors. For example, Abbas made little or no effort to tell the world community that it was unfair and unwise to punish ordinary Palestinians because of Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel and that it was illogical to demand that Hamas recognize Israel without demanding a reciprocal Israeli recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state on the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. He also equally utterly failed to effectively and clearly convey the message that the election of Hamas in January 2006 didnt really imply that a majority of Palestinians were against peace with Israel or dedicated to the destruction of the apartheid state as Israeli hasbara has been successfully trying to convince the international community. Indeed, Abbas' statements and remarks in the presence of foreign visitors often suggested that he more or less agreed that the Palestinian people erred, to put it mildly, by electing Hamas, and had to incur the consequences.

Empowering Abbas, through Israeli concessions or Western assistance, will not transform him into what he is not. He simply lacks the leadership qualities needed at this harrowing moment in Palestinian history. He had many opportunities to take action and lead, but did very little before Hamas ascended to power and has done even less subsequently. Abbas has outlived his usefulness and he must now go. The Palestinians can blame the whole world for their plight, but the real blame falls squarely on their leaders, past and present, who by betraying their true mandate to be the servants of their people, have led them to the precipice.

The high hopes placed in Arafat and the PLO (who for the first time were internationally recognized as the representatives of the Palestinian people) were dashed by a long series of mistakes, first by the collective leadership and then, after 1991, by Arafat personally. High among these mistakes is the Oslo Agreement, negotiated secretly by inexperienced Palestinian representatives behind the backs of the more sophisticated negotiators who were involved in the Madrid-Washington conferences from 1991 to 1993.

The Oslo accords have proven to be both a defeat and a betrayal for the Palestinians because the PLO agreed to concessions required of the Palestinians that one rarely ever hears mentioned. These include the fact that the Palestinian state would be surrounded by an Israeli "buffer zone," (read that to mean no one could enter or leave Palestine without Israel's permission.) Which other country has to suffer this indignity?

The Palestinian state would also be comprised of four separate, non-contiguous areas. To get from one town to the next, Palestinians would have to go through Israeli "checkpoints," the removal of which is a part of the Palestinian struggle; it makes no sense that after their independence, they would still have to endure them.

About 80 per cent of the settlers would remain within Palestine and the land on which they remained would be under permanent Israeli sovereignty.

As well, the Israeli-only "by-pass" roads that link one settlement to the next will be Israeli property as well. In other words, inside Palestine, you would have these roads where non-Palestinians would circulate without seeking permission from the Palestinians.

Under Oslo, East Jerusalem would be taken by Israel, with the Palestinians provided municipal control over a couple of neighborhoods.

And finally, the Palestinians would not have control of the water in their ground.

Abbas must now do the only decent thing: resign his post, call for new elections, and allow new leaders to come to the fore. Leaders like the imprisoned Marwan Barghouti may prove better at leading and enthusing a movement against Israeli occupation — without, it must be said, any great difference of political outlook. Warlords in the making, like the rival security chiefs Jibril Rajoub and Mohammed Dahlan, may prove more adept at stifling and suppressing Palestinian dissent on behalf of the same Israeli occupation. Others still, like recently sworn in Palestinian premier Salam Fayyad and his hapless predecessor Ahmad Qurei, may be more acceptable faces to Israel for negotiating a further sell-out of their people's rights.

But only scholarly spokespersons of the caliber of Professors Rashid Khalidi and the late Edward Said can combine all of these roles into a coherent whole. Their excellent knowledge and mastery of world politics can help rethink the Palestinian performance with regard to media tactics and public diplomacy and do away with the often jumbled and confused public discourse. They can effectively show that the Israeli occupation is an act of rape and that it is the mother of all problems in the Middle East and beyond, and that there can be no peace between Israel and the Arab world, as long as the Israeli occupation persists and the Palestinian people are denied their rights, including the right to have a viable and sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital as well the repatriation of Palestinian refugees to their original hometowns and villages in what is now Israel.

Jamal I. Bittar is professor of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Toledo,Toledo, Ohio.

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