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Friday, October 23rd, 2009

The fact that Wall Street has returned to gifting executives millions of dollars in bonuses says that we are right back where we failed during the previous administration, EXCEPT the unemployment rate has gone up AND housing prices are continuing to fall. Unemployment is bad enough but ring the alarm for housing prices in decline. That American dream is buttressed on owning a home.

7 Reasons Housing Is Doomed (no M.F.)

It isn’t simply owning a home either but the ideal that home ownership was a path to becoming middle class. It gave your family stability and equity that you could assume risk against to start college loans or even consider retirement. That dream is over now for Americans. Until we regulate the brazen recklessness of Wall Street we will not be able to truly stabilize our economy. Putting Wall Street in a headlock isn’t the final solution either, however it is a start.

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Women Are Wearing The Thickpants Now…

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Rising number of women earn more than mates

This is so true on a thousand levels. Chocolate Snowflake wears the corduroys in our relationship. Keep in mind that she has a college degree as well, so any chick I am dating will be making more money than me. Plus I like to ‘date up’ anyhoo. I refuse to be around any broad that has education credentials like mine.

This situation certainly has been true for the last two generations within the African American community. Now they are trying to push this lifestyle onto whites who have every reason to push back. What people are recognizing now is that there is no longer a middle class. Everyone is now part of the ‘working class’.

This means shit like no more vacations abroad or otherwise. They have even been marketing a term to describe your stay at home vacations – staycations. While that is a cute marketing device, it also tells me that the quality of life is being dramatically eroded if people can’t afford to literally change their perspectives.

I’m all for women being recognized for their contribution to the workforce. They can even bring home twice my salary if their boss will allow it and I will stay home to feed the babies, er, cats. I’m just leyting everyone know now that I want an apron to fit a 350lb man and not some little shit. This is the future internets. Next up, lactating male nipples.

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Stuff White Kids Like…

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Being a bad parent isn’t strictly the province of minorities or the poor and working class.

Being a bad parent is also stuffwhitepeoplelike

What parent sends their kindergartner to school with a Swiss army pocket knife and then gets irate when their child gets suspended? The same parents that would be suing the shit out of said school if some other kid brought that weapon to class and fileted their child’s eyesocket. If they wanted their child to be John Rambo so badly how about you homeschool him so he doesn’t stab anybody? Don’t think that 6yr olds don’t know how to get it in. They internalize television the same way we do.

More 6yr old fuckery courtesy of teh white was the TWitter sensation ‘#balloonboy’. Some pre-school kid reportedly took off in a helium-filled balloon and had the news media transfixed for hours. This makes me think some shit was getting fuxed the fux up with the economy while we were having our chains pulled with this story. If the #balloonboy and the baby Rambo are what we can expect as the outcome from the suburban parentage, Chcago’s DERRION ALBERT isn’t the exception any longer. He is now the national norm.

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Racial Profiling Gets A Facial…

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

The FBI has a new weapon in their war against crime. It’s your face. By using facial recognition software and the images stored in the Department of Motor Vehicles databases nationwide you aren’t going to able to skip out on a parking ticket any longer. So far they have caught at least one person for a crime and before the year is out they may, or may not, catch someone else. But in the meantime, they know what you look like.

So as soon as we criminalize people for having noses that are too wide or we crunch the numbers to find that people with a certain spacial relationship between their eyes and ears are more prone to crime (just like that candy to crime study) we will start locking you fools up on some preemptive shit. Remember how we bombed the fux out of Iraq preemptively? This will be just like that. We will kick in your door on some Minority Report shit, scan your retinas a then whup your ass.

So don’t think for a second that we won’t be abusing this technology.

What good is technology if it isn’t used for evil?

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