Father of 30 Wants State Assistance for Child-Support Payments

In 1997, when Desmond Hatchett was just a smooth talking Tennessee heart-breaker who made all the neighborhood girls swoon, I was 12- just a year shy of being the girl of his statutory rape charges, dropped despite admitted guilt. Maybe with a little jail time his life might have turned out differently. Maybe he would have learned, between push-ups and pick-up games and reading the dictionary, that with great penis comes great responsibility. Or, maybe he would have dropped the soap and simply discovered great penis. Instead, the jury sympathized with the admitted hebephile and he got to get off for getting off irresponsibly. This pivotal moment paved the way for a bleak future for Mr. Hatchett that would affect the lives of everyone he touched in that special way. Free to roam the streets endowed with too much animal magnetism to handle, he let his libido take over. Juggling several long-time girlfriends and fathering a child with 11 of them on an average of 2.7272727 times over the course of 14 years, Hatchett finds himself working minimum wage and being able to provide in some cases as little as $1.49 monthly for his 30 children. This... ma, uh, ma ahem... mm-aaa-nnn is reduced to asking the state to assist him in making his child-support payments.

You know, there is a reason why sentient beings learn to sublimate sexual urges. It's constructive. Every unspilled seed is the creative juices flowing into rivers of productivity. No wonder a man with 30 kids works minimum wage and can't figure out another way besides government handouts. Every now and then people just have to tell the little head who's boss, tighten up the sperm faucet and think: how can an idiot with no sense of or desire for personal responsibility make a lot of money? REALITY T.V. of course!

Surely, BET would love to follow Hatchett and his 11 baby mamas as he toys with their strangely devoted hearts. It may be controversial and send NAACP into an uproar, but that's why BET airs the show rather than some other network owned by the same media conglomerat- provides cover. Still, the show would gain popularity and become a cautionary tale. It would raise awareness and draw increased support for abstinence-only and sex education programs. Countless youth leaders would beckon Hatchett to go around and tell kids "Having 11 baby mamas and a t.v. show may seem glamorous, but you should wait until you become NBA players and rappers before you have 30 kids". He would make a difference.

Then again, if he were a thinking man he wouldn't be in this position, or whatever position it is he likes. Shame. Disregard the dull expression worn on the actual face; he's clearly handsome. And, how can he afford to even pretend to be wearing a gold chain????

See for yourself- totally serious

Joshua 24:15 and Civil Rights

“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” -Joshua 24:15 

In the eyes of the law, marriage is a type of legal document and social contract in which consenting adults agree to accept certain rights, responsibilities, and benefits. Those who believe that God was in the courtroom when they said their "I do's" or when they signed their state marriage license are free to affirm so in their hearts. However, the sanctity of marriage never was the purvue of the legal system. It is a matter of faith. Nor is the legal system the proper channel for the protection thereof.
Faith-based institutions have always freely excercised their right to refuse to recognize and administer any union deemed unfit based on the standards of their community. Attempts to delegate this work to the legal system is a sure sign of the weak resolve of the church and the families that composite them commisioned by God to ensure that the family unit is free from sin.

In other words: the legal system is no arbitrator of God's will, but just because the state recognizes a marriage, this does not mean that you and your community have to also. Couples have always left communities or been excommunicated because their marriage was not recognized by leaders in their religious organization. Likewise, there are many religious and spiritual individuals and organizations which sanctify types of unions not recognized by the state- biblically sanctioned polygamy being a prime example. Currently, churches that recognize the union of two spiritual beings regardless of the sex assigned to their bodies are among those that routinely sanctify marriages despite lack of recognition by public policy. As a Unitarian Universalist, my church is among them. Although denied equal rights, parties to these nonlegal unions feel the love of God at work in their union all the same. Public policy does not discourage these unions, it only discriminates against them.

In practice, the very fact that courts offer marriages, often to secular and athiest couples, clearly illustrates the parallel legal and spirtual aspects of marriage. How can God sanctify the marriage of atheists? Undoubtedly devil worshipers likely wed too. When the courts administer these marriages is this a reflection of God's will?

If marriage contains so sttrong a religious component as to render it incompatible with the naming of unions which would be consider unsanctified by certain religious grous, then courts should strip the term from legal jargon and documents. Let clergy administer marriages by God's law and courts document civil unions by our laws and constitution. After all, we've already been through this with Jim Crow. Seperate but equal is unacceptable in America. Call it marriage or call it civil union, courts should administer rights and priviledges to couples through identifcal methods irrespective of sexual orientation. A rose named shit may not smell as sweet, but fair is fair.

So if you are a person of certain faith, then protect the sanctity of your marriage. Practice abstinence until God wills you have a spouse of the opposite sex. Do not commit adultry. Do not divorce. Love your spouse as God loves the church. Model love and fidelity before your children and in your community. Like Joshua, pay no rmind to the neighbors or the legal system with regards to the running of other households. Let them follow their Gods. The challenge of fulfilling God's will in your own household and in your own religious community is great and requires focused energy. Juggling keeping one's own house and building your neighbors is like David trying to defeat Goliath while juggling bricks.

Turn to God in prayer regarding how to keep his favor in your personal life by keeping his commandments, not selectively institutionalizing those you don't personally struggle with. Every second that the faithful preoccuppy themselves with their neighbor's choices is another second of neglect of their spouse and their children. Divorce rates are high in this majority Christian nation. Underage drinking and sexual activity is equally so. No wonder, so many have their eyes off the ball. Calling themselves saved while their own families cry out for help.

Can I get an Amen?

Mom as Short-Term Loan? Republicans Suck at Trade

“We shouldn’t have to choose between women having preventative health care and young people keeping their student loan rates low",  Obama told students in a Arlington, VA high school last week. The GOP plan to pay the $6 billion price tag of extending low Stafford loan rates (currently expiring July 1) by reducing a preventative health care fund previsioned for in Obama's health care reform legislation, creates a huge conflict of interest for the very people this extension purports to help. Sentimental value aside, let's talk dollars, cents, and sense.

Here are just some of the countless reasons why students can't afford $1k savings at the cost of women's health- MasterCard style.

Can never... ever move back home after college/divorce/lay-off/other since parents are dead = Rent... $750

Can never... ever raid parent's fridge or pack Sunday dinner left-overs for lunch since parents are dead = Groceries... $60 more

Can never... ever do laundry using their detergent and must go to a (yuck) public laundromat since parents are dead =
Detergent... $15
2 loads wash and dry... $6

Can never... ever ask for extra money to cover a bill and have to pay a late fee sometimes since parents are dead =

Late fees

Car... $40

Student loan... $90

Credit card ... $20

Rent... $35

Didn't know any folk remedies for getting snot out of congested infant's nose (by blowing into her mouth) so there was an unnecessary trip to the pediatrician = Doctor's visit... $55

No default source for venting and emotional support so no one is covered by the Friend and Family Plan, plus it's all text since no one cares enough to call = Cellphone bill... $10 extra

And that was just a really sucky 1-2 months! Nevermind random doting, advice, house-cleaning, birthday/baby/wedding/graduation gifts, crisper creases in an interview suit, and God knows what.  Already we've paid $1,081 because parents will have once again done what they always do, sacrifice for their children. So there is it. A few weeks living without a parent... $1,081. The heartbreak of wondering what they would think... about everything... in life

... priceless.

Seriously, Republicans aren't alone in using the purse-strings to politicize the no-brainer bipartisan proposal of keeping education costs low. They were forced to reject the bill because Dems included a provision to raise the Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes of some high earning stockholders to pay for it.  Meanwhile, Democrat's election-season resistance to considering the GOP solution is hypocritical since they've previously agreed to cut $5 billion to the same program to pay for extending payroll tax cuts and temporarily maintain the amount Medicare pays to physicians.

The recent change may simply signal that  "enough is enough" when it comes compromising liberal values; but, it shouldn't slip notice that Democrat's current funding proposal and the past agreement happened not to wreak of morbid irony. It feels appropriate that today's corporate investors support affordable education for tomorrow's workforce (through tax increases). It even seems commonsense that any family financially-strapped enough to greatly benefit from payroll tax cuts may also place preventative health care on the back burner. The same individual may lose focus on their preventative health care to meet an elderly relative's urgent health care needs. However, using the perspective of the affected populations in this current debate, the GOP proposal almost evokes special interest warfare within families themselves.

Undergrads may completely ignore health concerns on account of their customary invincibility complex; but, just as much as students need to accumulate lower debt in an uncertain future, students desperately need moms and dads too... now far into that uncertain future. Because, when that tassel turns and its time for students to take on the challenges of adult life, including but not limited to, paying the proverbial piper, they will certainly need more money in their pockets; but, they will also need their moms and their dads in this world- not dead from a preventable or late detected disease.So yes, students need parents to get their cervical and breast cancer screenings, have access to obesity and quit-smoking programs and anything else that will keep moms and dads a phone call/email/text/laundry-toting road trip/Western Union money-transfer away. Parents deserve to grow to old-age, burst with pride at their children's accomplishments, hold their grandchildren and then die... of natural causes- their children.

Human Motherhood- Supernatural

Motherhood- define it as a state of mind and body which enables and facilitates sometimes endless sacrifice on the part of one organism for another. Running counter to survival instinct, the phenomena is an awe-inspiring feat of nature. For many, it is an all-consuming identity rendering the performance of its functions as compulsory as breathing.



Don't forget Mother's Day May 13, 2012

My own mother, a woman of great heart and faith, told me how she often wonders at the unfathomable magnitude of divine love- that, knowing the burrowing depths of feeling she has for my sister and I, it's astounding that our heavenly father's passion for his children is even greater, infinitely so. In what could turn out to be an immense and uncaring universe, there nevertheless exists a love so singularly immense that none more powerful is known beyond myth. The Christ-like giving of the body is the months-long sacrament of every mother, never to inspire gospel. The Passion of most mothers, not culminating in the hours of physical torture that constitutes the labor of giving life, but with it beginning.
It is the power of that love which is realizing the dream of eternal life itself. Mothers pass the torch of life-fire. Even as it flickers precariously in their own breasts, they wade across high waters bearing it like a crown of fire upon their heads, ushering it to future's shore.

And the loving human mother is an especially amazing specimen. Her highly evolved offspring, developing its hereditarily complex neurological structure, require among the longest incubation period of any species. The nutrient deprivation and extended period of vulnerability inherent in that process alone is daunting, even if infants were born walking and nearly self-sufficient like other off-spring. Instead, the trajectory of post-natal development rendered this impossible even for our primate ancestors. Add to that the unique demands of civilization, itself a product of the sophisticated human brain, and you have a highly involved breed of mothering which often becomes a fixed pattern of behavior for life. What makes this even miore astonishing is is that, due to that same complex brain structure, human mothers are uniquely unfettered by mere instinct. She is freed from the reigns of genetically prescribed behavioral patterns; so love is nature's only possible weapon to ensure the caring sacrifice of a mother for her child- so integral to continuance of our species.

Motherhood is unfathomable except to those who experience it. Yet, begining this Mother's Day let's try to gain a greater appreciation for motherhood and ensure that all the mothers in our lives feel the strength of that appreciation every day.

Special dedication to Charisse, Chantay, Trina, Anna, Erika, Stephanie, Roberta, Diane, Andrea and all the mothers I know. Also honoring mothers by adoption who model humanity and interspecies mothers who illustrate that love is a force surpassing nature- an end, not simplty a means.

Don't forget Mother's Day- Sunday May 13, 2012.

Looking at The Scream

Earlier this week Edward Munch's "The Scream" set a new record for the most expensive work of art ever sold. Whoever ponied up $120 must really get it. Surprisingly, however, the haunting image- widely noted as among art's most recognizable- is also deeply misunderstood.

Here are  a few missed details about the creation and its true intended message.

• The landscape, a bridge over water and stretching into an apparent anabyss, may carry deep symbolic meaning. However, it is far more literal. The scene is set on a road atop a steep hill in provincial Ekeberg in Oslo, Norway, overlooking Oslofjord River and Hovedøya Island.
• The scream too may be literal as well. A women's insane asylum is located at the bottom of the hill. It is said that people in the community frequently heard the blood curdling screams of the residents. Munch's own sister suffered from manic depression and was a patient there a the time of the painting.
• The strong expressionist technique might denote a nightmarish parallel world, but the calm stroll of two passersby and boats floating in the distance hint at the reality of an ordinary, even pleasant day. 
• Did you notice other people in the picture? Doesn't that make you feel even more alienated?

Sadly, widespread reproduction and outright reduction of this powerful image has stolen from viewers its full impact. So much of the story is cropped out in jpgs, blurred out in pixels, and glossed over by a scrolling cursor(y) glance that we even miss the true answer to the most pressing question we thought we already answered.

...Who is screaming?

That guy, I thought, the bald clean shaven dude with his face twisted in anguish, his mouth wide open, and his hands pressed against his ghostly cheeks- he's the one screaming, right? But I was wrong. Note how the curved brush strokes of the landscape arch toward his left hand-cupped ear. Imagine those lines as the scream itself. Sound waves are typically arch away from their source. And remember the passersby and boaters in the scene oblivious and undisturbed. They don't see him let alone hear him. if not that guy than who?

Or, more appropriately... what? In Munch's vision, it is the environment itself which is screaming, hence the . In his journal he described the terrifying and transcendent moment which spawned this portal into a nightmare.

"I went along the road with two friends— The sun set. Suddenly the sky became blood—and I felt the breath of sadness. I stopped—leaned against the fence—deathly tired. Clouds over the fjord dripped reeking with blood. My friends went on but I just stood trembling with an open wound in my breast I heard a huge extraordinary scream pass through nature." - Edward Munch
So, the tormented figure in the foreground is not crying out in pain. He is paralyzed by the head ripping cacaphony of a hellish and searning mutation of the Buddhist aum, the Der Schrei der Nature, (trans. The Shriek of Nature) as the work's original German title suggests. And worst, he is alone in his trancendent experience of reality- never to be heard, his pain unnoticed.

Now, as we browse the world at our fingertips, let's not be so stifled by the breadth of information that we never explore a discovery as deeply as we would our last breath. A browser is a tool- it should not define our consciousness.

For more elucidating discoveries on this masterpiece (and more) see The Private Life of a Masterpiece series. I caught a bit on YouTube.

How To Do Everything- Tool Box Essentials

Spring cleaning is  officially a few weeks overdue- give or take. If you're smart, then you've used your power procrastination wisely by taking in lots of sunshine and flowers. If you have allergies you should resemble a tan Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman in Black Swan) if her sudden unbridled zest for life came from UV ray exposure rather than schizophrenia and intestinal bleeding.

Meanwhile, your to-do list has been growing; and, when tasks mount  so does stress- like gravy on an already hefty plate of mashed life potatoes. Before you know it, the missed trash take-out here, the leaky faucet there, the untrimmed hedges, the unstowed winter clothes, and etc feel like an avalance threatening to bury you alive.

That's when you need to do more than get the job done. You need to shrink that egg-sized ulcer while you're at it. So, use the following tools for all your household needs.

Tool Box Essentials:

Sledgehammer (for hanging portraits)
Wrecking ball (for dusting)
Machete (for slicing cherry tomatoes)
Blowtorch (for lighting candles)
Atom Bomb (for mowing the lawn)

Now, doesn't that feel better? Treat yourself to a nice warm bubble bath as a reward for all you've accomplished. Than call your girlfriends over for tea and crumpets to ring in the new season. Just warn them to watch out for debris.

Asteroid Platinum Rush

It was only a cosmic second ago that humans first stood on two feet, sharpened slate rocks, and made fire. Yet, we've already drained our home planet of most of its natural resources. If only we could market a car that efficient. Guess its time to pack-up civilization and invade Pandora at the galaxy's edge. Oh, that was a fictional planet in the movie Avatar, you say? The very idea of man acheiving extraterrestial colonization is grossly premature, you say? But, astronomers have found countless planets orbiting distance stars, many in the inhabital zone. Surely one is sufficiently Earth-like to sustain human life. No? You mean we've been exhausting all of our planet's natural wealth so that 1% of the human population can roll 4,000lbs of metal six blocks to the McDonald's drive-thru while watching planking on our YouTube apps? I'm sorry, I forgot blowing each other up. That's what we mean when we say progress? I stand corrected- we're fucked.

Wired.com

Au contraire- there may be hope for us after all! Apparently, the  same people who revolutionized power procrastination may also extend the reign of modern human civilization! Last week a group of tech industry billionaires announced the launch a daring venture- mining for precious metals, especially platinum, and other crucial resources.... in SPACE!
In about two years the founders of Planetary Resource, Inc hope to have already launched the first telescopes,  Arkyd-101 Space Telescopes,  which will identify potentially lucrative asteroids in close orbit around Earth. In 5-7 years, the telescopes would theoretically be followed by more advanced ones which would offer a more detailed picture of asteroids of interests\- giving a lay-put of resource rich veins along the asteroid's surface, for example. Finally, robots will eventually mine, refine, and deliver the materials to Earth.

These materials are crucial in medical technology, renewable energy, and aerospace-tech. Another exciting possibility is the potential for gathering a sufficient surplus to stockpile at deep space refueling stations- powering deeper manned-space-craft galactic exploration.

Needless to pun, this is an astronomically expensive and risky venture- an estimated $30 million-dollar mission.  Still, if the technology gets off the ground and isn't smashed to pieces by a meteor shower, then the potential pay-off is huge- skimming a few feet deep into a half-mile Platinum-rich asteroid  could profit billions.

So... not quite space colonies- but we're taking baby steps. ET must think we're so cute, finally taking our first extraterrestial conquest. How's this for progress- at least this pillaging is genocide free- to the best of our knowledge!

We shouldn't be too overly confident, however. Extremifile species are surprisingly fecund on our home planet and scientists have successfully replicated a form of DNA without nucleic acids. We've yet to definitively distinguish life and death or the limit conditions where life can take hold. Who knows what rare microscopic organism may persist just below the surface of this space islands- perhaps hibernating or held is suspended animation for thousands of years- to be awakened by the heat and frenzy of interference by another intelligent life-form waiting to meet their doom. Space-AIDS- it could happen,.

But they say whomever stands in the way of progress will get run over. So, far be it from me to become a human speed bump on the blazed trail toward the future. I'm just the schizoid dude straddling the median of a busy highway holding a "The End is Near" sign.  Pay me no mind. Besides, I want my niece's children's children's to steal mommy's ray-gun and doodle crop circles which will spook some young civilization a light-year away.

Beats a nuclear holocaust. Space AIDS would suck too though.

Justice For Trayvon- No Confidence

Trayvon Martin, killed by racial profiling

On March 22, the Sanform City Commission voted "No Confidence" in Police Chief Sanford Lee's ability to  investigate the shooting death of Trayvon Martin; bnt, did his job performance truly warrant such admonishment?

Much of the percieved failure is based on the change.org petition initiated by the Martin family, complaining that no arrests have been made  and demanding the state immidiately charge and arrest the admitted killer, George Zimmerman. Naturally, the outcry has inspired compassion and outrage, with the petition gaining 1,1067, 571 signatores including, notably,  Russell Simmons, Spike Lee, and Al Sharpton in a little under a month. However, written less than 2 weeks following Trayvon's death, the complaint is based on passion, pain, and unthinkable greif- a sound understanding of due process notwithstanding. The fact is, without hard evidence refuting Zimmerman's self-defense claim and a case which will hold up in court, it would be premature and wreckless to take Zimmerman into custody before the investigation, surely underway from day one, is complete. That fact is the same regardless of whether the victim is black, brown, white or tye died. Hopefully, the signatores realze that police can't arrest a man because 1,1067, 571 outraged people told them to via the net. That's not justice for Trayvon or even #Justice4Trayon. That's a lynch mob.

So, why then would elected officials-  hopefully better informed of due process than laypersons- vote "No Confidence" when all parties are acting according to their duties? The answer is simple. Cheif  Lee could not have betrayed trust through negiligence or wonton disregard because, when it comes to blacks and law-enforcement, no confidence has ever been earned.

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*Note: The suggestion that Trayvon Martin died so that we can once again explore the state of race relations in the country sends chills. Trayvon had so much to live for, and died for nothing. Now we have the responsibility to live and work for a better world.

Mobile Company Introduces Silly Hoe Limited Plan

Dear Valued Wireless Customer,

We are thrilled to see you taking full advantage of your unlimited text, talk, and data plan. Your frequent browsing on FaceBook, Twitter, Tumblir, and other social media sites are clear evidence that we are providing an unfailing 4G connection to your bathtub, car, treadmill, bar, and even the bottom of the fish tank (we are sorry for any disappointment our stellar social networking apps may have inadvertently caused).  Still, to ensure that your mobile phone experience is even better, we are now assigning you new telephone plan especially designed to address your particular social needs! Although, it may at times cost a bit more than your current plan, we believe that in the long run it will greatly enrich your life!

Introducing the Silly Hoe Limited Plan. This plan still guarantees you unlimited talk, text, and data so that you can connect to the people you care about. However, the service limits your worst communicative impulses. Our limits and overage charges on such pathetic habits as drunk-texting, FaceBook stalking, and follow-ups will help you get on the path to rediscover your dignity.
Here is a simple outline of the plan:

Standard:


Unlimited talk, text, and data to family and friends
(including 30 minutes, 50 texts, 1 FaceBook update,  3 tweets, and 500 gigabytes of boo-loving monthly                                                                                                                     - $60.00

Monthly Overage Charges:

Standard overage (just being way too available)                                                            - $1.00 ea.
Drunk text to your ex                                                                                                    - $5.00 ea.
 Asking whether anyone got your text                                                                 - $10.00 ea.

Asking whether they got your text within 10 minutes of having sent it                  - $18.00 ea.
Multiple outbound texts without response                                                                      - $3.50 ea.
A voicemail (never leave a voicemail)                                                                -  $4.00 ea.
Booty call                                                                                                                     - $6.00 ea.
Booty text                                                                                                                    - $12.00 ea.
Booty tweet                                                                                                                   - $24.00 ea.
Declined Booty Communique                                                                            - $100.00 ea.
Ignored Booty Communique                                                                                         - $700.00 ea.
Saying "Hey"                                                                                                                - $3.00 ea.
Saying "Hey" after you both already said "Hey" followed by an awkward pause -           $30.00 ea.
Textographs and textnovelas (single text that spills into another text with overshare) - $2.50 ea.
Social media stalking data overage                                                                                - $.75 ea.
Facebootweetzophrenia (assuming a post is about you and emoting digitally)      -.$50.00 ea.
Status updates about the highs and lows of the relationship                                             - $20.00 ea.

Notice: Since new mediums for exposing how pathetic you are go viral everyday, this list of charges and penalties will be updated in accordance to your shameless cellular abuse patterns. We have too much respect for our customers to stand idly by and turn a profit while they humiliate themselves.

Thank you,
Mobile

In Science: Poop Power

Squatting is great for the quads though.

"Worthless piece of shit" is a common epithet that has stung far too many cheeks- the lingering pain of shame and rejection always sure to follow. But, thanks to an initiative funded by the  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we may yet finally discover the true worth of each and every dejected turd that has ever stunk.

According to UNICEF, the ivory thrones we take for granted are still unavailable to approximately 2.6 million people worldwide. The less sanitary alternatives, buckets and holes, lead to the spread of a number of debilitating diseases in these communities including typhoid, dysentery, and cholera.

So, Bill Gates has pledged 42 million dollars towards efforts to revamp the outmoded commode to make them not only more affordable, but even more efficient and sanitary as well. Eight science teams around the world have answered the challenge with some impressive innovations.

Furthermore, these toilets won't just be for shitting around anymore. Billed as the iPad of sanitation, the toilet of the future may come to define the next big renewable energy craze: PoopPower! And, by helping to cut our dependence on our dwindling fossil fuel reserves, our once worthless pieces of shit, with the help of these cutting edge personal fecal factories, may yet prove worth their weight in gold.

Here are a few of the ideas being tested:

• In the Netherlands, engineers are using microwaves to convert waste into carbon monoxide and hydrogen which, if stored solid-oxide fuel stacks, can be used to generate electricity.
• The British are turning it into bio-charcoal
• In the US, engineers are working on turning waste into hydrogen fuel cells.

So, anyone out there who has ever been called a worthless piece of shit now has a salient reminder of their value. Be it as a devoted friend, competent worker, loving family member, or a renewable energy source, remember that every one and every thing has value. That's a load of crap; but, it's an  indelible gem of wisdom- like the wisdom of seeing one's own value, never doubting it, and using it to add to the bounty of the universe.

Read more about fecal factory poop power production

Zionist + Secular = Liger

Secular Zionism:

The belief that Jews constitute a people, and therefore, are entitled to self-determination as well as the establishment of a state where they can live in peace free from anti-semitic persecution and attack.

Basic Tenets:

• As a practical neccessity, it is critical that this state be located within Palestine and it is mere coincidence that this happens to be the land referred to in The Torah as Canaan.
• Extending beyond  the internationally defined borders of  Israel is a neccessary security measure. It has nothing to do with G-d's mandate to inhabit all the lands of Canaan; nor does it increase risk to our citizens by placing them in illegal settlements in our enemy's backyard, thereby expanding the vulnerable perimeter, and stretching our military resources thin. This must be done so that we can live in peace free from persecution.
• It is unfortunate that acheiving our right to self-determinate and statehood came at the cost of our neighbors' rights who were colonized by Britain and therefore did not have a say in whether their land would be divided.
• Thousands of jews already lived in Palestine which makes the land ours anyway. In no way does the fact of a worldwide Jewish diaspora undermine that logic. In no was does the simultaneous presence of Palestians on a land most recently dubbed Palestine undermine that logic.
• We would support a Palestinian neighbor state but we know they would not stop there. Even their moderates would want a states based on the 1967 borders which we, excercising our self-determination, violated. And the extremists, they will stop at nothing until they occupy all of Canaan.
• We have a right to exist so it doesn't matter, we're here now. It doesn't matter that we are constantly expanding the definition of here. We're here now. Tomorrow, who knows where here will be but we have a right to be here no matter where we are and no matter what international law says.
• We do not speak out against our religious zionist counter-parts who break international law in pursuing their agenda to occupy all of Canaan. They have a right to self-determination and should live free from persecution even from fellow Jews.
• A little thing called The Holocaust.

Liger:

The offspring of a tiger interbreeding with a lion, each of which have a recessive gene which cancel each other out in purebreeds but becomes phenotypical in the mixed offspring and enables the cub to sprout wings and fly. This anomoly informs a common misconception that eagle DNA is spliced during an artificial insemination process in order to produce the wonder of the big cat kingdom.

Basic Tenents:

• It too can be defined
• It too has a name
• It too is a fiction of our imagination

One could make a compelling argument justifying Israeli aggression; but, the fact remains that their actions are about more than simply defending their right to exist. They are defending their right to do whatever the fuck they please. Those who arent motivated by religious zeal are exploiting that piety to advance a secular manifest destiny which has little to do with survival. Meanwhile, now that Israel's political capital as democratic allies in the Middle-East is completely spent after their splurge of diplomatically venomous policies that alienate them and their supporters from the rest of the world, all they have left to bond the U.S. to their aid is the apocalyptic fanaticism of Christian evangelicals pissing themselves waiting for the rebuilding of the Temple of David.

If a paradign, although secular, evokes radical religious fervor by half its name alone and relies on such a religious element to promote and acheive the application of its principles, then the oxymoronicly termed politics sheerly reflects a self-aggrandizing relationalization. Period.

How history lessons could deter Iranian aggression

Messianic Politics: Why A Wise God Killed Jesus

It's a purple problem- rampant in the red states as well as the blue. Conservatives turn to one flawed and morally questionable man to restore the cultural supremacy of  White Anglo-Saxon Protestant values while their spouses and children, even they themselves, prove living microcosms of their own definitions of modern moral depravity. Meanwhile, bleeding heart liberals push government to provide a better systemic safety net for the so-called underprivileged, but few step up to provide support where government agencies and policies so often fail. Too anemic for physical labor- I suppose.

In a free country such as ours- where individuals are empowered to lead the life of their choosing and human potential is largely unfettered by oppression- integrity is the most efficient path toward solving our nation's problems. In fact, if politics were actually a true reflection of our values, we wouldn't need it so much. If we exhibited self-restraint, tougher regulation would be unnecessary. If we lived our conscience we wouldn't rely on voting our conscience to have others act on our behalf.
In stead, politics- in our flawed human employment of the idea- is the method of sharing and indeed shifting blame and responsibility for our collection of individual problems. It is the vehicle by which we transport our personal failures to the distant and impersonal macro-arenas of global and national events.

Rearing our children and conducting ourselves according  to the ethics of our understanding is only marginally influenced by external forces such as The Media/censorship,  progressive legislation, or multi-culturalism. The government can outlaw sin, but it cannot save any one's soul. Not even in the most barbaric corners of Afghanistan or colonial America has a legal system ever succeeded in that. Similarly, the government can hand out blocks of cheese, but it can't care for your neighbors. These collective ailments require individual human responses as a primary, not secondary, prescriptions.

We are foolish to point fingers at the government for its immorality and greed without feeling the scrape of four nails against our own chests. This is OUR government. It will never achieve where we fail. It will only achieve what we have the strength of character and will to stop bitching and do.

It's human nature that, with personal fallibility as our only certainty, we never begin to build a faith in ourselves. In stead we achieve all things through Christ who strengthens us or through chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo to a scroll-in-a-box or some other Godless ritual that denies the singular beauty of our design- that we are inherently empowered. Judeo-Christian scripture says "made in God's image", sharing in his consciousness and creativity to manipulate and respond wisely to our environment. Buddhism teaches that the Buddha nature is always abiding within the spirit of all things and is routinely summoned and realized in the moment of our choosing. The great tragedy is that no matter how many times we make miracles within our lives and in the lives of each other, we give all the credit to some divine no one else nowhere else- thankful too late for gifts given in birth.

Founding father's disapproving look

This religious fallacy naturally extends into our politics. Although we've discovered, during the enlightenment, the power of reason and experience as valid pathways to truth as oppose to the old reliance on revelation and founded a nation on that conviction, the remnants of pre-enlightenment persists in the form of self-doubt, devaluing our personal problem solving skills and elevating a leader who may himself profess a direct connection to a divine omniscience.

It's sad that the demands of the people require politicians, Obama and his opponents in particular, to play into this very psychosis. Ironically, even in a democracy no one can get elected without promising to single-handedly change a political system which requires concerting actions by 3 branches of government and the consent of millions to accomplish anything. Why do we demand that government for the people by the people be led by a supposed autocrat?

Not even Jesus Christ himself could tolerate more than 3 years of legions stalking him around when they have good works undone and turning to him about every little thing after he already gave them the basic principles and hoped they could employ deductive reasoning to sort out the rest. It's doubtful that the disciples would have spread the Gospel half way around the world if Jesus had stuck around and let them sniff his garment hem all damn day. Once his purpose of inspiration was served, he became a distraction as leaders have become today. When are we going to get realistic about our political expectations and begin to help our leaders and ourselves accomplish our shared goals rather than back-seat drive like grandma with cataracts?

Even our elected representatives pass the buck, harping about a failure of leadership rather than  owning their own failures. Do you remember Republicans whining that they couldn't compromise with the Democrats because the president used divisive language during an address? It happened. At every level of society we differ responsibility. So where can it start except on the ground, with you and me, so no one gets a pass.

This coming election should not be one for "anybody but Obama" in protest of his broken promises. Instead, it should be about the reality that no one including Obama can deliver what all of our politicians offer: success without work, gain without sacrifice- the pill that makes you lose pounds of body fat without diet or exercise. Be real.

Happy President's Day!!!

Idolatry is un-American, just ask Justin Beiber

Happy Tuesday Single Ladies!

Let's paint a picture:

Valentines 2000-2009: Some or another stereotypical scene of romantic bliss. Most of it is a blur aside from a candle-lit apartment picnic with Chinese take-out and the warmth of knowing that this day was truly about me because I was in love and no matter where I was and what I was doing I was deeply and spiritually bound to another and their loving presence was always felt like the rays of sun cutting through the blistering winds of a late winter's day. Whatever.

Valentines 2010: Dumped 2 days prior I spent the weekend in a tear soaked hovel on my mother's bed heartbroken, confused, and alone because I shuddered to ruin my friends' romantic plans by confessing that this union- the one which they held as the singular shinning example of true love actualized and that in which their bound up faith resided, fueling their search for a love of their own- was actually complete b.s. It was then that an intriguing exploration on the science behind love and attraction aired on CBS Sunday Morning. Did you know that the average committed relationship ends after around 4yrs which is also the age at which most children are able to walk, feed themselves and, therefore, survive under the care and protection of a single parent? Oh well.

Valentines 2011: Thought I was betrothed to valentine a guy I'd been dating casually since a few months following my separation. He'd mentioned it in January; but, in retrospect he likely felt obligated because i brought it up, like, at New Year's (desperate much). Well wouldn't you know it? I didn't hear from him during the week or so leading up to the most romantic day of the year and had to gradually realize that it wasn't happening. So, I partied with my girl and looked sickening in a purple mini-dress with a strapless sweetheart neckline. I was still pissed, of course, and I ended the relationship hammer to a anthill style. Amazingly, for some reason, pathetic in nature I'm sure, I now consider him a good friend- I think.

More importantly, it was this year that I saw the details of an experiment in which men and women

Roland Martin: CNN Analyst Turned Unemployed "That Guy"

@Rolandsmartin If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl

-That Guy

Wolfe, we have a situation. Roland Martin- CNN contributing analyst, TV One talk host, author, and thee black perspective of the 24hr news cycle- has just committed professional suicide. In a few short tweets, probably ones influenced by numerous servings of liquid courage, Roland became the guy he has made a career of mocking, gravely of course. How many of Roland's loud ties, handkerchiefs, and neon suits with matching silken vests have taken part in a televised panel discussion to sound off on such cautionary tales as Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic paranoia, Michael Richard's ferocious racist rant, Don Imus' colorful politically unwronged sports commentary, or any of the other celeb-bigots to parade through the new cycles?

Based on Roland's extensive research into what happens when anyone in the public eye makes the fatal mistake of exposing his or her anti-social intolerace, he should already know where that road leads and should have pumped the breaks mid-tweet. Roland himself once predicted that, as the aftershock of Imus' "nappy headed hoes" fiasco rumbled through the entertainment industry, not only

Third World Tech: Only Oxymoronic to Morons

Is the world really flat as Friedman famously claims or did someone secretly invent a network of wormholes for intra-planetary travel? Introducing the Way-C, Africa's first tablet to rival the iPad. Not available in South Africa, or Nigeria, or Egypt, or Kenya or any of the other countries typically at the forefront of Africa's stop-and-go journey out of its colonial past and into its self-actualized and independent future.Created by 26yr old Verone Mankou and, like most IT products on the market, manufactured in China, the Way-C  was invented in the Republic of Congo and is currently sold exclusively in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire since its late January release. Success in the local test markets may compel its expansion across the continent. Surely, Mankou must have his sights on the globe as well. 

 That a pearl of such stunning technological advancement could form in the rocky terrain of struggling central Africa is a testament to human resilience and the exceptionalism of Mankou himself. I say exceptionalism because a potent confluence of all sorts of personal and circumstantial positives of an unknown quality convened to produce a presumably charmed life at times intersecting and intimately or narrowly paralleling lives filled with unspeakable misfortune. That the achievement is quite so stunning, particularly when iPad competitors are popping up everywhere especially in China where a Mandarin man built his own and shared the directions of KuTube and the Pro-Communist RedPad was born, may also be attributed to the elitist assumption that less industrialised nations lack innovation. Of course, whether my surprise exposes my ignorance or not, its self-evident that such a presumption is far from the truth.

Mankou and all young innovators like him, illustrate the sorts of next-level, fourth wave, future-is-here advancements evolve in the middle of what so-called "developed" countries call the third world. Easily traversed are he twin cities of cultural/economic/technological stagnation and progress. Developing countries like  India, South Africa and others illustrate this well but we often fail to grasp it as a universal principle: modern genius and industrialism is as prevalent in the third world as the prevalence of bombed out, dilapidated communities and disenfranchised groups are amidst high industrialization.

Way-C means "the light of the stars" in northern Congolese dialect. Perhaps because the stars penetrate darkness in an otherwise black sky, much like the pitch black nights of rural communities with poor infrastructure; and much like Mankou himself who is lighting the way to a brighter future for the continent. Mankou and the Way-C reflects the proud but peg-legged march of human progress along a meandering path forward. 

Check out this great interview with a slightly younger Verone Mankou for his insights into technological development in central African. Or check the official Way-C website.

Afterword: I remember the face of the most stunning woman I ever saw. I happened upon her in a Cape Town market place. She was incredibly beautiful. Small features, full lips, piercingly bright slanted eyes with skin like black lacquered porcelain. Perhaps to drum up sales her brother translated for me when I told her she was beautiful and then told the harrowing tale of their walk from DRC. Logically, she was too unmarred in beauty and grace for this to be true but it very likely is true if not in her case than in the absolute sense at least. People survive and thrive in quiet and miraculous ways defying incredible odds and forces. Perhaps with every breath that is every living things story- the miracle of life, another victory over death in a battle for each moment. Isn't the dead universe ugly and isn't every amazing thing alive or beautified by the living?

Armaggedon R&R: Resolution- Resolve, Refresh:

Time flies. A new year is already well under-way.  Our New Year's resolutions- quitting bad habits, finally doing that thing you've been putting off and putting off, losing those pounds... have already been forgotten. But here's an urgent reminder, because, in case you hadn't noticed, you'll need to expedite the process. There's barely enough time in the world to get out of debt, buy a house, travel the world, cure cancer, and invent a special shoe that mends the holes in your socks while you're wearing them. That's because this year is unlike any other.

Sure,  it will still be a another faded blur of insignificance, broken

obama underwhelms: STate oF the Union

I'm too shallow to have formulated a sufficiently impassioned opinion at this time. If the failure of Obama's speech to make a distinct impression on me is any indication of a larger trend, I'd guess his poll numbers should remain pretty steady. Obama might have squandered the opportunity to exude the presidential "it" factor which has historically boosted approval ratings following any major address. Instead, he appeared to be delivering a report card. His posture was like that of a cocky first year grad-student challenging his test results because they were only graded by the more senior teacher's aid.

I do hope he comes better than that during the campaign. His opponents may be full of posturing but during an election cycle image is everything.

Anyway, here's a link:
State of the Union: Fact Checking the President:

Female Enhancement: Madonna/Whore/Superwoman Theory

Lil Wayne wishes he could fuck every girl in the world, but he'll settle for long hair, thick red-bone. Likewise Jerry Lee Lewis loves big eyed giggly wiggly girls with pretty faces, and pony tails, preferably good enough with a sewing kit to make Chantilly lace. Meanwhile, during the frequent intervals when Freddie Mercury, lead singer for Queen, swings that way- it's the big bottom girls that make his rocking world go round.

Rough Break Down of Socially Proscribed Beauty Ideals Regionally:

• West: Thin, tan... blond with big boobs for a really good time
• East: Petite, fair-skinned.... curvy in the South and Near East, soft-spoken would also be nice
• African Subcontinent: dark skin and morbid obesity are a hot commodity.

Women all around the world are struggling to achieve these various ideals of beauty. Some pay the social and psychological cost of failure to do so while others still sacrifice the high price of their health and well being in pursuit of perfection. Yet, who among us has any trouble getting laid?!?!

Love Conditioning- An Evolutionary Sociological Look

As the saying goes, experience is what you get the day after you needed it. This adage has never rung truer than when applied to the experiences of a divorcee who is now a better, be it more bitter,  person. In fact, this divorcee has a nagging suspicion that even the most timely experience, (ie: through precognition, round-trip time travel, or a cross-dimensional wormhole), could not have taught her how to better handle relationships. Instead, it would have taught her exactly what it teachers her now: avoid them at all costs. So, en lieu of testing my new wisdom on yet another among the haplessly fallible and hopelessly fickle throngs of humanity, I'll offer this advice to those love birds out there who dare dream to the tune of the devil's lullaby. (Did I mention I was bitter?)

Inner City Youth Abandon Dreams of College- Too Dangerous

If you've asked .low-income urban parents about their dreams for their children, time and time again you've heard "I hope she [or he] makes it to college". The eerily tentative syntax implicates a parents fears for children submersed in a hostile environment. "Making it" to college means overcoming the challenges of inferior schooling and fewer opportunities; resisting temptations like the allure of truancy, gang affiliation, and drug trafficking; and being lucky enough never to fall victim to the dangers of simply being in the right place at the wrong time- losing one's life, or worse, having a child. College is traditionally seen as home base, a safety zone signifying definite escape from the cycle of poverty and its tragic outcomes where no thing is 'It" and no one gets toe-tagged.

Today this has begun to change.