Fuck Tim Hardaway

Holy fuck. I am sorry, but since I think basketball is stupid, I wasn't aware of Tim Hardaway's hatefilled rhetoric until I read about it in the paper. Damn. I am still wondering if this will get the same play as Michael Richards explosion. I guess in today's age it is still okay to hate fags but don't call some one a nigger. When I was in highschool it was the cool thing to call someone a faggot. Yet, if I used that word at home I got a swift rebuttal from my mother. She wouold say "You don't use the word nigger, do you? It is the same thing." Too bad not enough people are as enlightnened as my mother.
So just in case you missed it.


Of course, Basketball isn't homo-erotic at all. Oh shit that is right, it is as gay as football. In case you need proof here you go.


Sorry about being lazy and posting youtube videos. I just haven't had the time to write.

Oooooh! Bama

Ah yes, the Democratic politicians are falling all over themselves to support one of the worst human rights violators in the world. This time it is Barak Obama.
Here's an exerpt from the Israeli Daily Haaretz

WASHINGTON - United States Senator Barack Obama, a Democrat from Illinois who is competing for his party's presidential nomination, told Haaretz on Thursday that the United States should help protect Israel from its "dangerous" enemies.
"My view is that the United States' special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction," he said.
"Israelis want more than anything to live in peace with their neighbors, but Israel also has real - and very dangerous - enemies," Obama said.

Mr. Obama please sit down and have a smoke. Collect your thoughts. You will not get the Jewish dollars for your campaign because yoou can never be as tough as Hillary is on Arabs.
First off, Why should the U.S. protect Israel, the strongest military in the region with hundreds of Nuclear weapons, when it obviously can protect itself. I thought the point of the Western world possessing nuclear weapons was as a detterent.
Second, what is this special relationship that America has with Israel and what do we get out of it? THe only special relationship we have with Israel is our blocking of any meaningful peace process and vetoing any resolution critical of Israel at the UN. America hasn't and will not search for credible partners with whom they can make peace. We never had. Remember Arafat couldn't be talked to. Now Hamas is in charge and all of a sudden the US backs Arafat's Fatah party, which before wasn't a partner for peace. We are told that Hamas must recognize Israel's right to exist yet no Israeli politicians has ever said that the Palestinians have a right to exist.
THird, if Israel really wanted to live at peace with their neighbors they would get the hell out of the West Bank and pull back to the pre-67 borders.
Again this just shows how powerful the Israel Lobby is. In order for any Democratic candidate to be viable they must come out in favor of Israel's terrible human rights record and against the Arabs. Fuck, Obama is probably the only person on the globe who has Hussein in their name who doesn't support the Palestinians.

YouTube Videos of the Week

First off we have the "straight talk express" barrelling down the tracks. Oh crap that train derailed.


DO NOT WATCH UNLESS YOU CAN HANDLE GRAPHIC PICTURES OF WAR DEAD


Here is one of the best journalists in US history, Bill Moyers. THere is a movement starting in the hopes of getting BIll Moyers to run for President on the Democratic ticket. Draft Bill Moyers

At least some musicians care enough about the poor to talk about it. Thank you Immortal Technique.

Why things are the way they are.

Today in Wisconsin it is unreasonably, no insanely, fucking cold. We are talking 10 below air temp. and 30 below wind chill. Yes it is stupid cold here. As a result of the cold weather the city shut down the schools. Therefore I had many children today in the grocery store with their parents.
In case you don't know, I live in a pretty yuppie neighborhood. It is very European, whereas it is a walking community, it has a large Jewish and Russian population and is overall pretty upper middle class. From where I stand politically, I believe that it is the middle class that truly is responsible for the state of our country. These are the people who go to the polls, they write letters, they are in the P.T.A, and they basically decide the fate of our country. I may be wrong but I would I love for someone to tell me why. Either way the middle class is in control whether they know it or not. So my encounter with a upper middle class soccer mom was very informative and a little saddening.
I look up from my work and there is a white lady standing at the counter. IN the shopping cart there is a boy, maybe twelve, the new thing today is to have you children sit in the large part of the shopping cart along with you grocerys. I approach the customers and make some small talk.
Justin: So no school today, eh?
UpperMiddleClassWhiteLady(UMCWL): Ya, I was surprised.
Justin: Well it is just too cold out and the sad thing is that some kids get sent to school without gloves, and you just can't have that. SO the city did what it had to and shut down the schools.
UMCWL: Ya, I was watching the news today and they were at the Salvation Army. They didn't have enough beds so they were handing out gloves and hats. Imagine, these people don't even have gloves.
Justin: Ya I just watched a special on PBS, last week, about the homeless in Milwaukee. Did you know that there are 12,000 homeless people in Milwaukee.
UMCWL: (Gasp)
Justin: That is like a small city
UMCWL: Some of them sleep along the bike path, sometimes I see their little camps in the woods.
Justin: It is terrible, where do these people go in this weather.
UMCWL: It just makes you wonder, what you can't get a job at McDonalds?
Justin: Most of them are too mentally ill to hold down a job.
UMCWL: You know I never thought about that. Hmmm.
Justin: Well ya, you'd have to be crazy to want to live on the streets.
UMCWL: Ya that makes sense, and the drugs.
Justin: Well the drugs are really just a way for the mentally ill to self medicate themselves.
UMCWL: Or the drugs made them that way
Justin:(Hiding his total disgust and tryinf to find a way to end this conversation and not explode) Ya, I guess there are no simple answers. (A total lie in my mind. I am actually surprised at how simple the answers are)
SO here we have a white upper middle class voting citizen who doesn't realize that homeless people are mentally ill. No wonder absolutely nothing gets done that is good for the poor, ill and old. FOr her it was a question of laziness until she met me.
This whole time I thought this was all Ralph NAder's fault.

Molly Ivins 1944-2007 R.I.P.

Last night America lost a great voice of Progress. I can't really do any justice to her by trying to tell you about her. THerefore I will link an article by someone who can do her just.

Here is some video