The Russians couldn’t tame the Afghani in the 1880’s and neither could the British 150 years before them.
You can’t win in that bitch.
Go the fuck home.
That is the strategy we need to adopt. The opium suppliers are stronger than they ever were. Was the initial design of the G DUBBZ administration to increase opium production? That has been the only negligible effect of the war in Afghanistan.
From the early reports I think the president is replacing the commanding general with an idiot savant philospher. The quote went something like this, “He really does understand that you’re not going to win the war by killing all the enemy.”
WTF?!? How else do you win a war?
I still don’t understand what we are getting at in Afghanistan anyhoo? I thought we wanted OSAMA BIN LADEN? How did that mission morph into war with the entire country? Especially since no one has ever beaten these dudes on their home court, which is a cave.
^ Butching up for the 2009 Handsome Boy Modeling School calendar [ll]…
Excuse me for getting back to the column so late. It wasn’t like I was doing a victory lap for being in the Vibe.com top 50 Hip-Hop Bloggers list. I know better than to be hyped for that shit. I still need some money to pay my light bill. My fat ass was camped out overnight at KFC with a fistful of coupons trying to come up on some free chicken. What on God’s green Earth is better than free KFC? Free pr0n you said? Hells chea!
Avoid ‘Pr0n & Chicken’ though
So what did I miss other than the leak of Eminem’s latest album? For all that consternation about white dudes taking over Hip-Hop I am hyped for Em’s return. He’s one of the dudes that you have to press rewind to grasp, and even then you hear some new shit on repeated spins. This is good news for the rap game. Not so good news for the rap game is the fact that the Grand Hustle record label has more confidential informants than they do platinum selling rappers.
Have we all come to grips with the fact that T.I. sang like T-Pain on autotune when the Feds put the squeeze on son? Let’s be grown-ups in our understanding of how the Feds play their game. Plus, I don’t know anyone who ever got pinched for arms trafficking that got sit in his livingroom while the trial was ongoing and make video clips and records while in his boxer shorts [ll]. That is a luxury reserved for embezzlers and money launderers like Bernard Madoff, and well, snitches.
Rap music adopted so many of the cultural nuances of the mafia lifestyle why wouldn’t rap then be filled with a grip of snitches just like the mafia? Anytime you read the news about a racketeering case the Federal government’s lead witness is one of the thugs, or one of the mobsters, or one of the bosses. Sometimes its an accountant too. Everyone becomes a singer when the Feds push up on you. And why not? Even Fed time is a bitch being away from your family. Unless you have a family like Gotti. Not Irv, the studio gangster using the stage name Gotti, but the REAL niggas that made the name infamously famous.
As far as mafia trends go snitching is pretty high on the list. Kissing other men on the mouth with your eyes closed? Not so much. But certain mafia tribes have certain customs I’m sure. Throughout the history of organized crime we have always seen the rat.
Most kids always confuse the rats with the dead meat. In Black communities the ‘dead meat’ was the person who had no affiliation with the mafia biut reported their dealing to the police as if that would help restore civility in the neighborhood. After the police ‘ratted’ this person out to the mobsters it usually meant a visit from the thugs and funeral music shortly following. The snitch has to be someone who profits from the illicit activity they are reporting. Most people don’t know the difference between a snitch and a dead person so I just wanted to plug that in as a public service announcement.
T.I. should have kept Alfamega along for the ride. It’s not like Alfamega snitched on him. That was some OTHER dude in the Grand Hustle band camp. Plus, how sick official is it to have a studio filled with rappers wearing wireless microphones, rapping on wireless microphones using Wi-Fi service to download season 5 of ‘The Wire’? Some shit like that could have broken the time-space continuum and unleashed a Bizarro reality onto the Earth. You know, the reality where people actually do what they say. Fantasy is reality in rap music, and snitching done been the new rap ever since a rapper talked about how many drugs they had sold.
Swine flu is what we should call the federal government’s bank bailout program.
There are trillions of dollars being allocated for the banking system and none of this money is intended to service the consumers of these institutions. Lending has all but dried up and interest rates on deposits have not moved an inch, but the interest rates on credit cards are steadily marching skywards.
Keep in mind that these so-called lenders are getting these Fed loans at zero percent. I am imploring you all to keep an eye on the fine print because that is how these banks will attempt their legal mugging of our wallets…
Out of network bank ATM fees – That is how I always get slaughtered on the low. Bank of America charges me $3 at the machine and Chase hits me in the head for $1.50 on my statement. That’s $4.50 for a $40 withdrawl. Lucky for me I had $45 in my account.
Balance transfer fees – I used to try to skip around and put my card balances on cards with lower interest rates, but now the transfer fees are negating what saving that might have given me. $100-$150 is now the going rate.
Foreign exchange fees – When you use your cards in foreign lands you ever wonder what that monster chunk of money was that got pulled from your account? Check cashing stores don’t put their hands on your money as much as credit card issuing banks do.
Cash advances – This is something I hope you never, ever have to do. The cash advance is clearly what was described in Revelations as the mark of the beast. All bets are off for the interest rates on these things.
With all the pigs who administrate the banking system I would rather take my chances on avoiding Swine Flu from tainted dollar bills. Either way they have me coming and going.
Can you believe that your credit cards could be saving you from being part of the swine flu pandemic? As we tumble faster towards a cashless economy the biggest endorsement comes from the supremacist daily a/k/a the New York Times on why cash is huge transporter for flu germs and other microbiotic pathogens.
This is the Smart Money article that the NYTimes story uses as its lead in. In truth, its really only us poor people that handle cash. Middle class folks and the rich are already firmly embedded with the mark of the beast. My Washington Mutual debit card even has a 666 sequence in the 12 digit card number. I would embrace the mark of the beast my damn self if it could make my debts disappear.
The problem with cash is that it isn’t a totally efficient system for tracking the economy in real time. This is why we will have to move away from it. The masters of our fates will want to know shit like where we are and what we are spending our money on. GPS tracking devices in our cell phones and our debit cards will triangulate our movements the same way radio transmitters tell oceanographers where the dolphins are.
If you think you can get off the grid you are sorely mistaken. Embrace your fates party people and the good news is that you may very well hasten the Rapture.
In this advanced age of hyper-cyber-communication the paranoia of a pandemic spreads faster than the actual virus. And this H1N1 shit moves pretty fast. This is a perfect storm for the forces of EEEEEEEEE-vil. The reactionary media network wants to use this instance to fingerprint people and collect DNA samples. The racism that is being fomented is even deadlier than the virus itself.
But who is to blame for this untreatable influenza strain? Is it the Mexicans? What about the Chinese? Or is it the big corporations that process meats and produce on such a large scale that when a source becomes tainted it has already been distributed to half the global population? The proper popular name for the H1N1 virus should prA’li be the ‘ConAgra Virus’ but their D.C. lobby is way too slick to let that go down.
I remember the dysintery I acquired during a vacation in Mexico was nothing to fuck with. It had me sweating profusely, curled up under my covers like a scared child. I had to go out to Long Island to stay at my parents house so they could take care of me. Moctezuma wasn’t no joke. He was pissed off at being double-crossed by CORTES and the conquistadors. Maybe the best name for the swine flu is simply karma?
