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POLITRICKS 2008: So Right That He’s Wrong…
Monday, October 1st, 2007
White women heart RUDY, their ovaries… Not so much.
The ultra-neo-conservative faction of the Republican party is scared that RUDOLPH GIULIANI might undo some of the advances in the GOP that their operatives have been able to establish during the G DUBBZ regime. We’ve all seen the GIULIANI-as-madame photos which lead us to believe he doesn’t object to domestic partnerships. I’m fairly convinced myself that most of these anti-gay opponents are closeted homos anyhoo thanks to Senator CRAIG’s foibles. So even though these chicken hawk politicos love to talk tough and wear skirts for the most part their vaginas are still only figurative.
Women however, usually have vaginas. And it’s their use of those, what I call vaginal devices, that stirs the moxie of Christian coalitions and neo-cons. Most importantly is the fight over a women’s right to terminate a pregnancy. For the last eight years whenever G DUBBZ has wanted to distract voters away from his clearly retarded foreign policy he has chosen to say the word abortion in a sentence along with the word god. This has been the equivalent of cat nip for the majority of conservative and even moderate minded constituents.
GIULIANI has held his position as not being opposed to the ROE v. WADE decision for a long time, but now as his campaign begins to founder pre primary time he seems to be courting the neo-cons for their support. Would GIULIANI throw women’s rights under the bus the same way he threw his last family away for his current cellphone loving wife? You’re damn skippy he would!
The one thing I give RUDY credit for is the transparency of his political ambition. He won’t let ALPHONSE D’AMATO get within 100ft. of him and he won’t even take BERNARD KERIK’s phone calls. Ultimately I hope this blind blonde ambition is what derails this schmuck. When national voters see that he stands beside everything, therefore he stands for nothing, maybe the use of 9-11 as a scare tactic will be diminished. I understand that’s still a stretch since G DUBBZ invokes the same images when he’s busy undermining the national economy.
Is America ready for an unsexy president? I pray that all the voting vaginal devices just say no.
Philadelphia Needed To Win One… Badly.
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Bigger than the collapse of the Mets is the ascendancy of the Philadelphia Phillies. They have shown a resilience that their beleaguered city is desperate to witness. The horrible poverty that has devastated Camden New Jersey has bled (literally) into the city of brotherly love [ll].
In 2006 Philadelphia had the worst murder rate for any large city and that includes America’s most hardbody city, Detroit. This year has already been even worse in only the first nine months. This is why I am happy for the Philadelphia Phillies and I hope that the Eagles can get their shit together as well. If Philly has something to divert their attention from the encroaching poverty and loss of economic opportunities maybe the tide of violence can be stemmed. Philadelphia’s sports teams must do something positive before basketball season begins and the Sixers start sucking the life out of the city. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around it will be way too late.
In the meantime we need to examine how we can proactively (no P Diddy) control the violence in our neighborhoods. It used to be good enough to build a few more basketball courts and have a few more block parties but those times are past tense. People in the centre city need real solutions on rebuilding their communities. To me this means vocational training that deals with repairing the crumbling infrastructure within the centre city. Enough money has been spent on rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan and Darfur and where the fuck ever. We need to rebuild America.
That’s the team I’m rooting for.
BIONIC SYNERGY IN ADVERTISING…
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I DVR’d the premiere episode of the new ‘Bionic Woman’ action drama television show. It’s pretty dope too, but considering it’s produced by the folks that make ‘Battlestar Galactica’ I don’t consider that a stretch. ‘Bionic Woman’ even has some of the cast members from the Galactica series namely the chick that plays Starbuck Kara Thrace. All of that is well and good, but during the commercial break of ‘Bionic Woman’ I saw an interesting commercial.
Nissan is going in hard with NBC Universal to push up the sales of it’s newest SUV called the Rogue. When I watched ‘Heroes’ the other evening I noticed a few scenes were the car was shot as the centerpiece of the scene and the characters were placed awkwardly beside it. During the ‘Bionic Woman’ telecast NBC advertised a promotion to give several of the vehicles away after they had been signed by the creator of the ‘Heroes’ series, TIM KRING.
All of this to say that advertisers are scrambling to have their products placed now that viewers are no longer watching their expensively produced commercials. The same money that was being spent to sponsor network programming is now being used to underwrite and produce specific shows. TiVo means never having to watch a commercial again, or so I thought. Now the programming itself has become the commercial.
ET TU NIKE, ET TU?!?
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
I read this article in the internets about how Nike spent mega bucks to do some research on the foot size of Native Americans in order to construct a shoe that was more agreeable and comfortable to wear. Aww shit! Sounds like Nike is making their kicks more sturdy for the long trek on another Trail of Tears.
Although I don’t know how much farther west we can force the natives to walk.
So Injuns have bigger feet than most people? You know what that means? Bigger feet = bigger socks. I can imagine that natives will have to start paying more for their socks because of the extra cotton involved.
I’m pissed that Nike would fund the research to study the size of people’s feet. Who the fuck cares about the size of someone’s foot anyhoo? How about making a bigger shoe. Just do it. Or fund a study to find out why the injun foot is larger than the Euros who were used as the control group for normal sized feet.
It turns out that diabetes is prevalent among Native Americans at a ridiculously disproportionate rate than any other residents in the United States, moreso than even Black people. That could explain the occurrence of larger feet.
Too often we only treat symptoms to problems here in America without examining the root causes of the problems in the first place. It allows people to continue their fantasy lives of actually being good people, caring for pets and saving the Earth, without ever having to confront the fact that they are the reason the planet is so fucked the fuck up on a daily basis.
I’m sure Nike will use their social equity in this experiment in order to create some fucking mocassins that pay homage to the various native communities. Knowing that I am a sensless sneaker consumer as well I will prah’lee copp me a pair of those Iroquois Air Max.
