Tuesday, October 24, 2006



OK this is a call and response thing. First I ll post the leading argument then my response. Only the relevant parts though:

Vigilante Darwinism Current mood: deviously evil
There are too many people on the planet today. Wait. I take that back. There are too many stupid people on the planet today. I don't know exactly where they come from. They are ninja-esque in their assault upon intelligent society; everywhere, yet nowhere. You could be walking along, minding your own business, and then...BAM! Face to face with a person who would do better in a padded room surrounded by a bunch of board games than out of the streets causing mayhem.Consider rats if you will. They actually eat their own kind. While this is a rather disgusting practice, it does elude to a higher plane of existence. When the world is submersed in nuclear warfare and we humans are struggling to survive, they will be happy and cozy in their little dens. Why? Because they had the good sense to kill off the weak and feeble of their species; leaving the strongest and most capable to survive. Ingenious.I am waiting for mankind to wake up and smell the coffee, but I grow weary. In fact, it appears we are going the other direction and actually encouraging the retarded of our species to procreate. Take for example, welfare. If you cannot support yourself and your family now, what makes you think you can handle one more child? Not to sound harsh, but the day after you receive your first welfare check, a doctor should show up at your front door for mandatory sterilization. True, people are sometimes dealt a bum hand, but a majority of the time the person is either too lazy to work or too stupid to get a better paying job. Either way, the genetic line should be obliterated.

Now here was the response I posted:

Why do people insult the welfarians? You know, most people in the US are only 2 checks from destitutions themselves. And more over its not like Pennsylvania is doing that good with job creation and population overflow. They lost 2 seats here in the last Census due to people LEAVING the state. No one is leaving because of the weather. I declare they are leaving because of the lame economic situation. But we persist on insulting welfare recipients? Thats nice. It s easier to insult offend poor people than the CEOs who shifted your jobs to lower wage area while taking a massive pay bonus for themselves. Not to mention the war-mongers who overbill the Defense Department for mayhem bound weapons. Mandatory Sterilization? Public Assistance is not meant to be permanent. If you are on it now, who is to say you ll be one 5 years from now? So why would you sterilize someone? And dont jump to a conclusion that being wealthy makes you a better parent. It makes you able to afford the shit that children need BETTER. AND, just because you re doing good now does not mean that you will always be. I mean, in this area 50 years ago everyone had a job in a factory(mostly steel production). When was the last time 200 tons of steel left Pennsylvania? 1983? Hmm, that more than 20 years ago? Lets not go so far back. Ford has to fire 30,000 people. GM also. So now you lost your job and new ones aint quite the same. What do you do? Do I neglect your need for food? Housing? Why do think the largest employer in the Northeast is the government. Of some sort, state, local, towns hire more people than they need to be productive but it keeps unemployment levels lower than they would be without it. Following your example no one should reproduce, because people who worked for Enron thought they were on easy street, but some one pilfered the company from under them. Now what? Should they kill their children as opposed to asking for welfare? What about the people who died in the World Trade Center? Many of them were major bread winners or led households. Not all of them multi-millionaires. There were janitors and cashiers and receptionists and window washers and electricians among the bondbrokers and financial traders. Now what? Kill them off as opposed to asking for government aid? How about putting orphans in wood chippers instead of group homes?
You say the majority of the time the person is just lazy. I ask you: Do you know that many people that you can determine that the MAJORITY of them are lazy? How many do you know? Or are you guessing and presuming that this majority is an actual factual quantity of people whom you oddly dont know? You have interviewed all 300,000,000 people in the USA? But tell me mama, how good does a family of 2-3 live on $694/month? Hmmm, but look at this a missile from the Raytheon Corporation costs $1,000,000...each. It takes 4 missiles to make a battery. So a battery costs like $4,000,000. And let us not forget the truck that it mounted on. Then you say too stupid to get a better paying job. That statement is so biased, I m sorry it doesnt even....you know, are you sure you re not one of these people who should be obliterated?
Rats eat their own kind, sure that s good. But they also eat their own shit so what do they know?

Sunday, October 01, 2006



OK, so the new book by Bob Woodward "State of Denial" hits the stands manana. And there it is folks. The War in Iraq is bonkers! But to hear it being sung, it’s a cakewalk. I m still waiting to be greeted with jelly beans and Ju Ju Bees’ as a liberator. That’s the world we live in where the people who start wars never went to fight in one themselves. And this America.
Saw the news today, Congress passed an emergency appropriations bill to fund this war and other(s) at a cost of $440 Billion. Let me give you the zeros there just in case you thought it was small:$440,000,000,000. That’s half a trillion dollars, or 50% of $1,000,000,000,000. Where the fuck is this money coming from? Your people have sold you the fuck out! I now some of you motherfuckers don’t even have $1,000 in the bank so you cant picture the enormity. This money is BORROWED. And it has to be repaid. I know some of you don’t even have bank accounts, so….But for those of you with children who thought that you might be able to send them to college, you can hang that up. For those of you that thought that your kids in public school would have a fighting chance, you can quit now. The chances of success for YOUR children are now like a midgety dude fighting a 20 year old Mike Tyson. The funding for this albatross has to come from somewhere. Cuts in education, cuts in health care, cuts in transportation. Cuts in everything except military spending and prison building. I can guarantee that last part. Bailouts for none, except multi-national corporations. Yea, I can guarantee that. I know some of you don’t care, but fuck you, I don’t want to know you anyway. You’re like a fucking sheep. And sheep ain’t worth shit. Personal opinion.
So with less support from the federal government and unfunded mandates coming out of Congress, states will have no option but to raise revenue through increasing property taxes, and fees for services. Motor Vehicle fees, sales taxes, business taxes will have to increase(which you should know by now will only hurt small business operators, because big businesses have mucho write-offs, tax loops, off shore accounts and subsidies to dissipate their tax liabilities. Now I know of you corn-holers, will say that big business creates a lot of jobs so they deserve it. To that I say "Fuck you" , that’s bullshit. Small business creates more jobs and they should receive the same benefits that big business does.). No federal government matching dollars for community programs means no community programs. No child care, no senior centers, no summer camps, no job training programs.
And for those of you that believe in Karma I just want to say that you are full of shit. Who gets Karma? Its not the soldier dying for the acts of the zealots who sent him to die. The zealots get a big house in the suburbs and a refrigerator full of food. Zealots get fruity colored sweaters and fancy new cars for their 18th birthday. Poor people fill the jails looking for a better day. Only the poor people die, haven’t you noticed? Karma should affect the rich, greedy and corrupt but oddly enough it only pains the poor, hopeless and desperate. That’s how you know its bullshit! You don’t mean Karma, you mean witchcraft don’t you?
For those of you that don’t vote, once again "fuck you". When they institute the prison work camps and indoctrination facilities, I’ll see if I can get you a good job picking out radishes on the "liberty" farm. Either that or turning tricks in the state sanctioned brothel-arium.
And with that, folks I m off to Afghanistan next week. I had to go by the firearms store and pick up my own sidearm. Berettas are nice, but I m going to buy a CZ maybe a Hi-Point…. I’ll see you when I get back…hopefully in one piece. Now, you know ain’t no fat bootie babes in Afghanistan, so what’s a guy to do? Was that sexist? Yep, but once again, "fuck you", if I got to go to some shit-hole where some dude wearing a robe and sandals riding a donkey is going to shoot surface to air missiles and rocket propelled grenades at me then I get the right to say I like big butts. To me big ole asses make the world go ’round. Its like cigarettes, if you got it, share it. Wink-wink. Now, what are YOU going to do about it?
Some songs on the MP3: "What A Fool Believes" Doobie Brothers, "I m qualified to satisfy you" Barry White, "Freaks come out at night" Whodini, "Too hot to handle" Heatwave


Hmm, you guys are starting to piss me off now, man. Why is it that people who claim to like and KNOW music so much are misinformed about so much of it. Did I or did I not just spend 3 whole days with guys who kept telling me: That they stole that record from that guy? How did the O’Jays steal the melody for Backstabbers from Angie Stone? One record came out in like 1976 and the other in 2002. How did Teena Marie steal "Ooh Lalala" from the Fugees? Come on people. One record came out in 1996 and the other one in like 1988. How can you steal a record if the you recorded it first? Now I m not totally against sampling sometimes you can get a nice new record out of it. Kanye West prove me on this. For example he took Distant Lover by Marvin Gaye and make Graveyard Shift, also Spirit in the Dark by Aretha Franklin and made a nice record with it. But sometimes it s just a lack of creativity. I ll give it to the Southern rappers for not using samples that much and making their own music, but I ll take it away because the lyrics are mostly DOO DOO Du Jour. And sometimes the music isn’t that tight.
I don’t think the tirade is out of entirely out of place. I mean in all forms of music its not that good. And what is good is hard to come across. That’s why most of us spend so much time digging in the crates. You know DITC, right? Listening to vaulted records by masters of music. In my case it’s the 1970s, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Al Green, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight et alumni. Why or how could people still be interested in records made essentially 30-30+ years ago? It’s the melody, rhythm sections, the lyrics, the arrangements. Some of the new guys today can get there but its like comparing the Grand Canyon to a sinkhole in your backyard. Its something like it but…I can mention some of the new guys that are doing it well, but I wont because this is a tribute to the greatness of the musicians who came before.
Man, don’t get me started on Spanish language music. There hasn’t been a fresh idea in Tropicale since 1983. Everyone reveres the sound of Fania even though the artists of Fania left the decade broke as fuck. Some Jewish guy made off with all the masters which he owns to this day. And every royalty generated from radio airplay goes to him not the artist. Its one of them chicken home roosting things though. They were presented with the option of going to Gamble in Philadelphia International or Gordy at Motown. They chose not to be affiliated with a Black Label or the "Black Sound" and got robbed by someone who had their "best interests" in mind. And by the middle of the decade had to backtrack because the only guys paying were Casablanca and Salsoul in NYC, PI and Philly Groove in Philly, and Motown and 20th Century now in LA. Don’t think so? Listen to the arrangements on the disco records and the arrangements on "Calle Luna, Calle Sol" and "Smarty Pants". You can hear the similarities only real difference-stronger percussion section in "Smarty Pants" and stronger piano section in "Calle Luna, Calle Sol". Still call and response vocal section with strong lead vocals. People know. By the end of the 1970s the Philadelphia Sound was killing them out there. It had the same dance rhythm as Fania but lyrics that could be generally understood by most. Along with the harder percussion and short horn interludes it made the record easier to extend and mix in the danceteria. I know most latinos don’t want to hear that but cant prove otherwise. The premise is that Tropicale(Salsa) has been improved on since 1983, while it hasn’t. Musicians still use the same melodies that they were using 20 years ago with changing only the chord structures barely. Any Spanish language musician that attempts to progress the music is charged with selling out. And then came Reggaeton. Oh lord! Need I say more? This isn’t even good reggae. While in reggae they used dub plates so many artists could record a record using the same rhythm. OK, OK. But dammit every one in a while a guy cuts a new plate and they start over again. Why is it in Reggaeton every record sounds the same? And why are the lyrics so DOO DOO Du Jour? What can save Reggaeton? Easing its way back to rap en espanol. There are radio stations that program reggaeton all day. Here is a plug to 2 cool radio stations: WDAS 105.3 and WRNB 107.9 FM, Philadelphia. To date I know they have competitors but no does it better, which is odd because DAS is a Clear Channel unit and RNB is a Radio One operation. Usually these corporate stations can screw up anything with focus groups and marketing surveys. If you know a good station let me know.