munchkin

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How can you not love that smile.
(Image stolen from the soub.)

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Three large U.S. companies were

Three large U.S. companies were named in a lawsuit on Tuesday filed on behalf of black Americans descended from slaves, the first-ever class action seeking reparations from firms for profiting from slavery.

Yahoo!

*deep breath*
*Calming thoughts*
Okay…ummm… Fuck You.
You have no rights in this case. You were damaged in no way. There hasn’t been slavery in this country for over a century. The last widow of the last slave is dead.
This has nothing to do with helping black people.
Where would the money go? No person alive can lay claim to personal injury.
Give it away to just every black person in this country? How black is black? And what about those people who got here after slavery. And what about those black people who’s ancestors owned slaves?
Do you really think the money would go to help educate and uplift the culture as a whole? Helllllllllllll no. An educated, self-confident black man or woman is not going to wallow in the cesspool of victimization necessary to instigate lawsuits such as this.
I can’t stand people who wallow in the past, blaming it for all their miseries. You will find black people in every sector and every level of life in this country. There is no glass ceiling. Pull your head out of your ass and try to do something with your own life.
I sat on the subway tonight listening to 2 Live Crew’s Banned in the USA. It’s a powerful song, with a beat and lyrics that make the heart and mind burn.
And it really kind of depressed me. At the time, 2 Live Crew was considered the lower end of Rap anyway, dealing mainly with partying and sex. But if you listen to that song, those lyrics and his voice are so much clearer, so much more intelligent than black music today.
Banned talks about taking back the power. But it never happened. Pop black culture has degenerated into a self-destructive, hedonistic lifestyle. They react to eachother like playground kids, and disassociate themselves from other cultures simply for being different. The rapper shootings were the most visable result. For a while, everyone stepped back and said, “This is nuts”. But we’re right back on that path again.
Your minds are being bought and sold by the same old white guys — the media moguls that control everything you see and hear. I think you need to step back from that slavemaster, before you worry about what might have happened to your ancestors.

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God Save the Queen: LONDON

God Save the Queen:

LONDON (Reuters) – Pop-up toilets that rise from the ground at night will be installed in central London in a bid to dissuade late-night male revelers from urinating against walls and doorways.
The self-cleaning telescopic urinals, which Westminister City Council hopes to have in place by autumn, will emerge from under the ground and be retracted in the day via remote control.
“By moving them underground it means they are not an obstacle in the day,” a council spokeswoman said Monday.
The council has already deployed mobile urinals which have been placed on the streets Friday and Saturday nights to cut down street urination.
The telescopic toilet is currently only available in Europe, Westminster council said.

yahoo

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I woke up to cheering

I woke up to cheering this morning. Of course, it isnt the first time I’ve had cheering in my bedroom. But ussually it doesn’t happen when I’m alone.
Okay… so maybe it does, but it’s a personal thing.
The DC marathon was passing my apartment. Those people are sick. Getting up at 7 in the morning and running 26 . Just punch me in the gut and let me go back to sleep.
My landlady is a nut. She’s on this trip about me looking like Nicolas Cage. It isn’t the first time anyone’s told me this. But she is slightly more vocal about it. She has the entire building staff calling me Nick, and I caught her yesterday telling other resident’s I don’t even know about it when I wasn’t there.

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U.N. weapons inspectors

At a news conference with Cheney at this Red Sea resort, Mubarak also addressed another difficult Mideast issue, saying he believes Iraq’s Saddam Hussein is close to agreeing to allow the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.

Okay… eveybody here who believes this is going to work out, raise their hand.
Now it may just be because I’m alone here, but I don’t see any hands.
Within six months, the inspectors will either be running for their life, or withdrawn for lack of results. Even when Iraq was pretending to go along with the inspections, the UN teams never found anything despite the fact we knew there was something there.
How mny times are we going to do this?

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anematapia

100 pictures in one night is enough. In the past week I have labeled over 600 photographs, and I still have 100 to go. It’s a real lesson in how many names you can forget in one year.
Work today:
Talk to boss. Tell boss there are problems. Ignore the fact the boss is the instigator of most of those problems. Tell boss you want to help fix them. Boss tell you you’re not being clear. Boss is defensive and says I am wrong about everything. Boss ignores fact that the entire rest of the staff has quit.
Found me a new job yet?
On a more cheerful note, I actually seem to be learning something in my Spanish class. Hey baby, wanna hear me conjugate?
God this place is a mess, and I have visitors coming in 2 days.

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Divine Right to Fool

Any crack or perceived crack in the support, in the unity, of the American people and our leaders in Washington is not helpful,%uFFD3 Lott added, %uFFD2and it is important that we not be critical of the commander-in-chief in a time that we are at war.”

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Kiss.
my.
fuzzy.
pink.
ass.
There is no time when anyone, especially our governmental leaders, should be immune to criticism.
There is no period when a president experiences more power than during wartime. Meaning there should be no time when they are under closer scrutiny.
We may not be able to do anything about violations of humanity and common sense until after the fact, but everyone is accountable for their actions. How happy will the Shrub be when he is Milosovic’s place?

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“A Louisiana woman is suing

“A Louisiana woman is suing Nintendo, alleging her 30-year-old son suffered seizures after playing video games for eight hours a day, six days a week.”

Lady… if you have a 30 year old man living with you playing Nintendo 8 hours a day 6 days a week… you have some problems of your own you should deal with.

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