Saturday, November 20, 2004
''Yes, he is into gangsta rap, but that doesn't make him a criminal...."
Image courtesy - Metroland Online
Whoa - go away for a week and all hell breaks loose:
- Last week's "skanless" Monday Night Football intro bumper proves that the NFL were f-ckin' liars when they pled ignorance about Janet's Superbowl halftime performance. Let's see if the FCC throws their weight around this time. (ifilm)
- Business As Usual at the latest hip hop awards show. How come ni--az only ever act up at the "black" events? These coons behave themselves real good at the massa's events though. Of course, I'm not even factoring in the real likelihood that this whole thing was staged as a PR stunt. Don't look at me crazy, it's been done before and y'all know hip hop is basically the musical equivalent of pro wrestling nowadays anyway. No wonder Jay is disgusted. (hiphopgame.com)
- Irv's my man from way back but the Federales look like they really wanna shut his
- ODB, RIP - I hope this is not the final musical legacy that Ason Unique leaves the world with. Rza and Dame, pull it together and please honor one of the few original heads that was still in the game right. But, of course, the exploitation has already begun. (allhiphop.com)
Update:
- Pistons-Pacers mash-up (and we're not talking about music here): I missed this out the gate, but WTF happened Friday night in Detroit? It's always been clear that Ron Artest was one of the more gutter players in the NBA but that was some other ish. Maybe the NBA was trying to capture some of the audience for this? (Daily News | Related: watch the video)
- And I just heard about it poppin' off in Clemson SC this weekend too. (MSNBC.com)
Meanwhile, in the real news:
'This one's faking he's dead'
'He's dead now'
Image courtesy - Common Dreams
- A US Marine shoots an unarmed, injured suspected insurgent in cold blood while being filmed! (Independent | Related: Common Dreams permalink)
- And do you really think Falluja went well? I heard on TV that only 5% of the insurgents were captured (couldn't find a news link confirming this though) while the rest fled to Mosul and elsewhere to keep fighting (see below). Meanwhile, the city lies in ruins (permalink) and is a humanitarian crisis-in-the-making with thousands of civilians wounded, dead or made homeless despite denials to the contrary by the Iraqi government and US military and a likelihood of renewed insurgent activity if US troops leave to fight elsewhere as planned. (Indpendent | KeralaNext.com | New York Times)
- And it just gets worse overall in Iraq. Understand, this war is already lost unless another half million troops hit the ground over there like now. (Related: ABC News International and BBC News links)
- While on the home front, Porter Goss goes on a partisan witch hunt to clear ranks of agents "disloyal" to Bush. (Newsday | Related: New York Times story)
- But, no surprise, US intelligence is still getting it wrong. Be very scared because, so far, nothing has or looks likely to change post 9/11 despite the findings of a well-regarded, bipartisan commission. (Newsweek)
- Especially when this failure gets a promotion to Secretary of State?! (Washington Post)
- Hello Alberto! (San Francisco Chronicle via Dave Pricelicious)
After writing all that I am now back to being stressed like a muh'f-cker despite a few days downtime in Hawaii. Ah man, F-CK Bush - again!
