Thursday, July 02, 2009
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"Oh Shit! ... GMO Food Sterilizes People ... And It's Really A Form of Population Control?"
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
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Were We All Kunta Kinte? Or Are We Also Mansa Musa?
Barry Goldwater 1909-1998
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"It Is Easier To Change A Man's Religion Than It Is To Change His Diet"
Private Prison Industry
2,000,000 human beings in American prisons and counting
IS THIS LITTLE GUY A PERSON?
The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Louis Pasteur
"The Microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Beverly Johnson. Beverly Hills. 1978
"Bra! Tell Me About It!"
"Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes."
Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
Denmark Vesey For President 08
1. Troops Out Of Iraq Immediately. Like By Monday. 2. Money Owed To Haliburton and War Contractors Be Given Directly To The Iraqi People 3. Complete Electoral Reform 4. No Corporate Conglomerate Will Be Allowed To Control More Than 5% Of News Market 5. Federal Reserve Abolished 6. For-Profit Prison Industry Abolished
*George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, critic
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness... If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... The great enemy of clear language is insincerity... The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it... To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle... For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
God Don't Make No Mistakes
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Great Grandmother Harris
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8 comments:
When Ron is hot, he's hot. When he's in a slump, he'll continue ball-hogging and taking bad shots even though he can't hit the broad side of a barn.
Tell Kobe I said, "Fuck yo couch, nigga, fuck yo couch!"
Sorry, just had to get that out there.
Anon is right. But being a Queens native and St. John's fan since the days of Chris Mullin and Jayson Williams, I love the brother but must admit his shortcomings.
Certainly what DV says would reap dividends in a fantasy league but unlike a Dennis Rodman or Rasheed Wallace, Artest has yet to prove that he can be an integral element in composing a championship team. Plus didn't Ariza acquit himself rather well in the playoffs and with his youth and potential upside wouldn't it have made better sense to re-sign him and see how the Lakers progress and keep him as trade bait for the future?
If we can keep Lamar, whoa...the nba is going to be good next year. Lamar overplayed his hand and really needs to just stay with us now. Ariza for Artest is a great bargain.
The Celts got Rasheed too and cleveland got Shaq, who should be good for 10 points and 4 rebounds.
You can't teach youth, explosiveness, length, calm demeanor, acceptance of location in hierarchy or innate commitment to effort on the defensive end of the floor. Ariza has all of these attributes, not to mention he hasn't peaked yet. I'm a long term value guy where as the league seems to prefer immediate ROI and short term moves.
Artest is nice, and the enforcer the Lakers haven't had. I just like a team that seems to have all the core pieces, leaving those pieces to gel into a tru masterpiece. I'd play it safe and keep the relatively smooth team dynamics as is. Not the Artest is a "problem" by any means, I don't buy into that, I just see a Laker squad that should not be making moves simply because Clev, Orlando and Boston did.
Bottom line is with either guy they should win it all next year. Ariza just provides a wing stud for a much longer term, with an understanding of the Lakers Org and system, team dynamics etc.
KP
Not to mention he won 2 finals games w/steals and sparked a big run in game 3 I believe with 3pt shooting that he JUST added to his skill set.
KP
I feel ya KP.
I've like Ariza since he was up at Westchester High School.
He's a great player. Stepped up this year.
But Ron Artest is a beast.
Yao went down and he damn near carried the Rockets to the final game on pure will power.
You could build a team around RA.
Ariza is a role player. A critical role player. But he aint no Ron Artest.
The Lakers were a bit soft before this. Skill players. But no thugs.
Ron is the cat the other players in the NBA would least like to fight. That's wort 8 points and 6 rebounds in and of itself.
Brilliant deal.
I should mention you can't teach Artest's brand of toughness. Shyt's innate. Some call it thug I call it toughness. modern day Oakley, Mahorn type shyt. Lakeshow needed that mild intimidation factor plus he's a MUCH better post defender but again... short term change to a team w/out a glaring weakness.
KP
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