In Case You Didn't Know, Barack Hates Women

or is at least, possibly using sexist language
From ABC's "Political Punch" blog

Earlier this month, speaking at Tulane University, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said this about the attacks coming his way from Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY:

"You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out," Obama said.

The CLAWS come out? Really?

Then yesterday Obama told reporters who had asked about Clinton's latest attack ad, "I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal."

That prompted some female TV reporters to question the language he was using.

According to this unofficial transcript, over at MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell and Norah O'Donnell seemed to suggest Obama may have been -- if not playing the gender card, then using language women voters might find offensive.

Language such as "when she's feeling down" "periodically" she "launches attacks."

Nora O'Donnell: "He said, 'I understand when she's down, that she makes these kinds of attacks.' It's getting a little personal."

Andrea Mitchell: "It's getting a little personal and, very frankly, you know how deeply we interpreted every comment to look for some sort of racial motivation before South Carolina. A lot of people said it was there. But, you know, when you start describing a female candidate as being 'down' and 'striking back,' I don't know, that's a little edgy, don't you think?"

Nora O'Donnell: "Yeah. And I think there's gonna be a lot more comments about that."*

Pro-Clinton blogger Taylor Marsh writes that words like this, in her view, indicate "a way of thinking about women. A way of demeaning women in power; even saying we're not up to the job. Seriously, Senator Hillary Clinton is a woman running for president. Not some emotional menopausal diva popping pills because she's depressed she broke a nail."

"Claws"…"feeling down"...I find it hard to envision Obama using the same language if he were facing, say, former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC.

But what do you think?

Of course he wouldn't because he's too much of a pussy. And if everyone is overly sensitive to racial issues and race is not to be brought up then sexism is that thing that people don't even acknowledge is real or important enough to even warrant a dangerous undercurrent of discussion breaking into a spring [Ed. Note- I had an idea for a metaphor there but...it didn't work, at least this early]
But of course I'm sure if this somehow does become big he'll explain it away with flowing words dripped in rainbows and honey because after all Hillary is likeable, enough

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Paul Shaffer Is A Little Creepy

this secret was posted on, er PostSecret this morning


I think I originally misread that as “I have an irrational fear” (maybe because that picture was frightening) but that misreading got me thinking that yeah, Paul is really creepy and I may be afraid of, or hate him myself.
But he's definitely creepy

Um…what about Cher’s muff?

Or with this wow! inappropriate question to Julia Roberts

But about the hatred maybe whoever sent in that secret, maybe it’s not that irrational maybe she’s just from St. Petersburg and she has to stand up for the homestead

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A Black History Mix

An exercise in exploring the history of black consciousness and history as expressed through music . Far from comprehensive or even really representative but these are some songs I have that I thought would provide a decent enough primer and that I like (and so, obviously should you)






Music for the People:

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Wade in the Water [download]
Robert Johnson- Me & The Devil Blues [download]
Billie Holiday-Strange Fruit [download]
Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm- Rocket 88 [download]
Nina Simone-Mississippi Goddamn [download]
Nina Simone- To Be Young, Gifted & Black [download]
Richie Havens- Freedom/Motherless Child [download]
James Brown- Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud) [download]
The Last Poets- Black Wish [download]
Stevie Wonder- Black Man [download]
The Last Poets- Just Because [download]
Gil Scott-Heron- Brother [download]
Public Enemy- Fight the Power [download]
Boogie Down Productions (KRS-One)- Why Is That? [download]
Ras Kass- Nature of the Threat [download]
2Pac- Old School [download]
Dead Prez- Hip Hop [download]
Outkast-Liberation [download]


Who’s up for a revolution?

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The Meanings of Life

according to David Servan-Schrieber of Ode Magazine

When I was 15, a church sermon left its mark on me. The priest began with the question, “Where should we seek God?” Years later, I found my own answer. I believe what for centuries has been called “finding God” means finding meaning in our lives. A new perspective has emerged from neuroscience in the past 20 years. What gives life its richness does not come from reason and intellect. It comes instead from a well-balanced emotional brain, that deepest and most archaic part of the nervous system. And what does a balanced emotional brain need? Above all, strong connections, full relationships. These can be found in four areas of our lives:

1. Our physical existence: If we don’t allow ourselves to taste, smell, touch, listen and look while concentrating on the present moment, we are not connected to our bodies. Yoga, an ancient source of wisdom, is first and foremost an education in connecting to our physical beings. Exercise, too—which engages our attention, our agility, our strength and builds endurance in our cells—is another means of connecting. As we grow aware of our bodies’ reactions to the world, we are connected to the roots of our emotions.
2. Intimacy: The emotional brain is connected to the body, but it is also designed to regulate our emotional relationships. Naturally, love is an effective way of giving us meaning. When we look each other in the eyes and feel our hearts beating faster, we stop asking existential questions. All that involves us in intimate relationships anchors us firmly in our existence. We don’t question the meaning of life when we take a child by the hand on his first day at school, or when we watch our daughter singing in a choir. All those to whom we feel close connect us to life and give it meaning.
3. The community: I had a 30-year-old patient whose life expectancy was limited to a few months by cancer. He was no longer working as an electrician and spent his time moping in front of the television, in anguish at his approaching death. I saw him once a week and we talked about his fear and what his life had been like. He ended up volunteering his time to repair the air-conditioning system in his local church. He spent several hours at the church almost every day. People greeted him by name when they met him in the corridors. When he was working on the roof, they waved to him, and brought him food and drink. In a few weeks, even though his health was getting worse, his anxiety abated. All it took, in the end, was to feel useful and appreciated.
4. Spirituality: It is possible to feel connected to a dimension beyond the body. For some, the greatest source of meaning is the sense of being in the presence of something much greater. We often feel this simply when we are face to face with nature, or in certain places that remind us how insignificant we are in the universe. Strangely, it is at the precise moments when we experience how small we are that life itself seems to fill with meaning—and so do we.

My conclusion from that? Live, Love, Cast seeds outward and Cultivate Within.

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Remember the Cheatriots

because I feel i have to do something about football today here's one man's interpretation of the Patriots and their unspeakable evil, blah blah. It is pretty amusing though, his level of hatred and obsession as well as the video too I guess

Cheatriots? doesn't work for me really. How 'bout maybe "Remember the videotaPetriots?"
sigh
Is Puppy Bowl on yet?

(via Deadspin)

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Famous Authors Predict The Winner of Super Bowl XLII

by Shane Ryan of McSweeney's

Cormac McCarthy

Overhead, the sun is a wrathful god. It is made to ravage a dying land.

The boy stands in a dry gulch. He tilts his hat to the sting of the wind.

These men are patriots, says The Coach.

I reckon.

Do you know their soul?

Reckon not.

A hoarse laugh echoes through the heat. It singes the cragged escarpments of the red canyon.

You won't be the first, says The Coach.

I ain't scared of you.

Tengo otros cuerpos. Quiero el tuyo.

The Coach wears a bone around his neck. It is hung from dead sinew. Other bones he has ground by pestle and mortar. In the ancient caves he swallowed white dust.

I am here to erase you.

The boy squints at the arroyo bed. The earth is scorched in jagged lines.

It ain't no kind of life, he says.

Overhead, the sun is a wrathful god. It will bake the world.

Prediction: Patriots 27, Giants 6

Raymond Carver

I really admire what the Giants have done this season. It isn't often you see a team struggle early, eke out a series of road wins, and still manage to peak at the perfect moment. It's a rare occurrence, I'll say that much.

On the other side, you've got football's version of Goliath. Experts tell me the Patriots are the strongest team in NFL history. From the moment they beat the Colts, they've been earmarked as Super Bowl Champions. It's tough to pick against an undefeated record.

All that being said, I've been so impressed with Eli Manning's development these last four weeks that I'm willing to take the underdog. What can I say? I believe in the New York Giants.

Prediction: Giants 31, Patriots 28

Raymond Carver, edited by Gordon Lish

It isn't a thing you see often, I'll say that much.

They tell me this is Goliath.

I believe in Giants.

Prediction: G.

Ayn Rand

When he saw Bill Belichick in the hallway before the press conference, Tom Coughlin's face contorted into a whine. "It isn't fair!" he shrieked. "You have all the best players!" he whimpered. "What happened to helping your fellow man?!" he mewled. "You ... all you care about is winning!" he sniveled.

The muscular coach set his prominent jaw, and his hard, handsome eyes glistened. "Why, Tom," he asked with a smile, "isn't winning what the NFL is all about?"

Coughlin's face turned bright red as he flapped his effeminate hands in hysterical gestures. By this time, a large crowd of reporters had gathered. "But, but ... your players are the best in the league! Your offense is unstoppable! How am I supposed to go on the field with my weak players or my simple, predictable playcalling?? We'll be destroyed! I tell you it isn't fair! We deserve to be helped! This is social treason!"

Belichick squared his broad shoulders as he stared Coughlin in the eye. The smaller man cowed and threw his hands to his face in a pathetic flail. "Tom," said Belichick, "I bet nobody has been honest with you in your entire life, so let me be the first. I was taught in the ways of strength. Yes, my men will win today. But it's because we've had the courage to act on our judgment, and the fortitude to trust our decisions. Long ago, we were faced with a choice—the same choice you faced. We chose conviction. You chose impotence. And now, today, you ask me not only to cut my wrists and bleed on your behalf ... oh no. You would also have me fund, design, and build the knife. You accuse me of social treason, and yet you beg me to betray myself." The beautiful man laughed a throaty, attractive laugh. "You are a coward, Tom, and a coward in this world deserves nothing."

With a great cheer, the reporters stood in unison and applauded.

Prediction: Patriots 326, Giants –27

Jack Kerouac

Like BAM-skip-a-tap young Eli shouts down the line and oh me oh my it's a beautiful thing to behold out in rusty Arizona twilight where American ghosts have come to die and be born again in a land of ten thousandzilliontrillion dry summers nursing the prickles on a cactus's back. Don't sing to me about patriots, old man, because iftheretrulyis agoddamnflagatall it was wrought from what we did not what we said and young Eli knows it without knowing and says it without speaking down on that dusky field all brown and bright green with blueclad muscled lineboys gone berserk and fierce A-FWOP-youaintseennothinyetoldman-CRACK-POP.

Watch while those hard-raised salt-of-this-or-any-other-earth calloused hands uphold what became more than a youngman's idea. Watch them put down those others, oh America, those slinkingshirking fallen boys who for sixty true minutes (may the Blue God bless you one and all) are no kind of patriot I'd ever dream.

Would a man be baptized in all that?

You're goddamn right.

Prediction: Giants35 and a dance in goldendusk

Jane Austen

Hyacinth and amethyst adorned the landscape of her heart, betrothed to fragrant oakmoss and blazing scarlet within the amorous lovestrokes of an incandescent horizon. In the shade of the gray branches, she put pen to paper. "I love you, Tom Brady," it began. "Though others call you wicked."

Prediction: Handsome Tom 46, Stern Aunt Louisa 9

James Joyce

Thusly and thricely slaked he uptrod the spiral staircase and fancied for himself only a briny frieze.

— Give out, Jesuit, or forever in peace may you lie.

Sardonic, sardonic was the smile then adopted. It can twist forever (if the vicars will allow, if the oxen pull the plow).

— Dearly beloved, he quipped through shut mouth, did not Rapunzel cry from on high?

She skipped with a slow whistle to the first stone slab. As at Young Colin's, on the eve of Fata Morgana, all rose quietly. How could it be remiss?

Thanatopsis. Requiescat In Pace.

Prediction: Unclear

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Midnight Movies from The Public Domain

Thank heaven for archive.org

This week's offering:
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) directed by Robert Weine from 1920
"The film tells the story of the deranged Dr. Caligari and his faithful sleepwalking Cesare and their connection to a string of murders in a German mountain village, Holstenwall.
Critics worldwide have praised the film for its Expressionist style, complete with wild, distorted set design. Caligari has been cited as an influence on film noir, one of the earliest horror films, and a model for directors for many decades."

And it’s #186 on imdb’s Top 250







Du mußt Caligari werden.
You must become Caligari.

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There She Is, Miss America

There she is, Miss America
There she is, your ideal
The dream of a million girls who are more than pretty can come true
in Atlantic City
For she may turn out to be the Queen of femininity

There she is, Miss America
There she is, your ideal
With so many beauties she took the town by storm
With her all-American face and form

And there she is
Walking on air, she is
Fairest of the fair, she is
There she is - Miss America

Meet your Miss America :
Kirsten Haglund
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Age: 19


Education:
Walled Lake Western High School
University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music
Platform Issue: Raising Awareness of Eating Disorders
Scholastic Ambition: BFA Musical Theatre, Graduate Degree
Talent: Operatic Vocal
Scholastic Honors: - University of Cincinnati Dean's List (3.973 GPA) - Cincinnatus 'Century' Scholar -National Honor Society Member
Other Accomplishments: Performed as a soloist with the Burklyn Ballet Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Career Ambition: Pursue a Career on Broadway
Local Competition Sponsor: Miss Oakland County Scholarship Program
State Competition Sponsor: Miss Michigan Scholarship Program




Miss Washington was actually my favorite.sigh. Okay, I'm over it.

A Miss America Mix:
Harry Chapin- I Miss America [download]

Beach Boys- Little Girl (You’re My Miss America) [download]

Paul McCartney- Momma Miss America [download]

Bratmobile- I Live in a Town Where Boys Amputate Their Hearts (Make Me Miss America)[download]

Ryan Adams- Do Miss America [download]

(and because I’ll never actually remember to do it for that pageant specifically-)
Reagan Youth- Miss Teen America [download]


wow this post totally got out of hand

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Don't Forget The Day Job

Prove It.
An e-mail I got from some progressive newsletter that I guess I’m subscribed to

President Bush wants the Senate to pass retroactive immunity for telecommunication companies who spied on Americans. For the President, this isn't just about letting his friends at AT&T and Verizon off the hook. He knows this is the American people's last chance to hold the Bush administration accountable for their warrantless wiretapping of innocent Americans.

The key vote is scheduled for late Monday afternoon and the count is down to the wire. We need 41 Senators to stand up to President Bush and right now we have only 36.

Senators Clinton and Obama are the missing votes. If Senator Clinton or Obama stands up and leads from the floor of the U.S. Senate and calls upon the 8 senators that have endorsed their campaigns to stand with them, we'll have the votes we need and the American people will win.


Democracy for America will not stay silent and hope our Presidential candidates will lead. We demand it. That's why we're running this ad in the New York Times on Monday.


We're standing up and taking action. Senators Clinton and Obama say they are ready to lead. Let's see them prove it.

Send this link: www.Democracy
forAmerica.com/ProveIt

It would be nice to see them actually, y’know, do their jobs because apparently,as seen in this post detailing the missed vote record of Dennis Kucinich and how that may play a factor in “blue collar” Cleveland, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama missed vote 23.6% and 37.8%, of the time respectively which is well above the Senate average of 5

On the other side of the same coin Ron Paul’s “missed-vote rate while running for the White House: a whopping 28.2%. John McCain, it should be noted, has missed 56.1% of the votes in this session, second only to South Dakota's Tim Johnson, who is recovering from a brain hemorrhage.
Which is why only former senators and politicians, or other people currently out of office should be allowed to run for President, so that they’re not too bus to do that which they have been elected, and paid to do.
(p.s. this is such a super fun chart
Someone needs to give a gold star for attendance and never missing a vote to :

• Sen. John Barrasso , Republican from Wyoming
• Max Baucus, Democrat from Montana
• Bob Casey, Democrat from Pennsylvania
• Susan Collins Republican of Maine
• Russ Feingold Democrat from Wisconsin
• Charles Grassley, Republican Iowa
• Herb Kohl Democrat from Wisconsin
• Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada
• Ken Salazar, Democrat of Colorado
• Olympia Snow Republican of Maine
• And Roger Wicker republican from Mississippi (who’s only had 2 votes to miss since he was sworn in as Trent Lott’s replacement a week ago )

In the House gold stars go to:

• Jason Altmire a Democrat from Pennsylvania’s 4th
• Dale Kildee a Dem from Michigan’s 5th
• and of newbies Laura Richardson from California’s 37th (my "home" district)
  

ICYWW in the house Barbara Cubin a Republican from Wyoming has missed 646 votes out of 1208 (or 53.5%) which is the highest miss total for someone who hasn’t contracted cancer and/or died
Shame Her

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Darth Redubbed

or The Vader Sessions featuring James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader from A New Hope...except his voice is from his other films including Field of Dreams and The Great White Hope (those are the only ones I could place straightaway)

Something that really amused me about this video, on its youtube page its tags include
"hillarious" "genius" "knightley" "spiderman" "nirvana": honesty and humility, much?

But speaking of genius, and because we're on the subject of redubbing, I'm reminded of these overdubbed "shred" videos created by a Finn called StSanders. From an article about it

In the clips we see axe heroes performing the fret-wanking solos that were a staple of 80s hard rock arena shows. There's Slash, of course, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Carlos Santana and more.

The look of supreme concentration and smug gratification on the faces of these axe-masters is unmistakable. But as their fingers flicker across the fretboards something quite wrong is happening. As they're mugging at their adoring audience it sounds like they're carelessly hitting random notes, playing through a cheap amp, in a tiled bathroom. But the look on Joe's and Stevie's and Eddie's faces is beautiful and oblivious.

The inspiration came when StSanders caught a Steve Vai clip on mute, and thought that it looked "kinda funny". He set about rerecording the guitar parts himself so that they sound perfectly inept. Honestly, it is actually hilarious.

It really is, especially if you know the song in its original version. Like here is Metallica's One "overdubbed"


or Angus Young from AC/DC doing Thunderstruck


These amuse me probably too much, I don't know why. Anyway if you want to see more here is StSanders' YouTube page

[And oh snap! StSanders did his own Star Wars Redo with James Earl Jones' voice from Coming To America

Ahhaaaa!]

(p.s. I was originally going to title this post Dub Rebels, because it sounds sort of cool but it seems there's a band with the same name and...so much for my creativity. Hmm; how about Redub Rebels?)

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Spear the Turtle

The ACC Season really starts today for Duke at Wasteland
From Duke Basketball Report

Board material from Maryland’s Cliff Tucker!

“I can’t stand Duke. It’s one of the reasons I wanted to come here so I can beat Duke, I already got North Carolina. Duke is next. I cannot stand Duke. I tell people all the time, if they gave me a scholarship and that was my only Division I scholarship, I’d go Division II or something like that. I would never, ever go there. I don’t know what it is, I can’t stand Duke"

And who is Mr. Tucker that he feels that he can make such comments?
A lifelong Maryland fan, freshmen from El Paso. A two time captain of his football team (as a receiver) recruited by Clemson, Georgetown, Texas Tech, UTEP, and Uconn son of Regina and Clifton Tucker ... enjoys video games and watching movies in his free time

Who averages 4.5 points a game 2.4 rebounds and shoots 44% from the free throw line. (and yet thinks he has the right to talk trash. And about how he “already got North Carolina", he had 8 points and 2 rebounds in that game. I’m sure his high school coach Tom Shukit back at Chaplin must be proud)
Hopefully he’s improved his strength and long range shooting and ball handling , he'll need to for tonight against God.

Seriously kid you should’ve stuck to football (so y’know you could've lost to Oregon State)

Spear the turtle


gotta love redneck white guys

God I hate Maryland (though they’re not our rivals.) Win or Lose something will be burning tonight in College Park
{UPDATE: Cliff Tucker had 3 rebounds 4 points and 3 assists. Next time spend less time hating, and more time not sucking.}

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Color Me Surprised (Clothed in Sequins & Glitter)

When I saw the tease: “Skater proposes to partner on ice” I immediately thought that some figure skater proposed to, ahem, his “partner”- I mean it is figure skating and all- it seemed like an open enough venue to do something like that.

But then I actually clicked on the story, and I actually remembered there is pairs figure skating, that I saw it was John Baldwin Jr who proposed to his pairs partner Rena Inoue

I just thought this was an urban legend but there are really straight male figure skaters?

Inoue and Baldwin have plenty to celebrate, too. As they took their bows, Baldwin dropped to his knees and asked his longtime girlfriend to marry him. Stunned, she could only stare at him at first.


"I didn't know. He didn't tell me and I don't think he told anybody," Inoue said. "At first I was just so shocked. I didn't know what was going on here."


Said Baldwin, "I told her she's the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, how much respect I have for her and that everything I've accomplished in my career and on the ice is because of her."

As the crowd cheered, Baldwin asked again. With tears rolling down her face, Inoue said yes.

Awwwwwww. But while doing a minimal amount of research I discovered that I was asking the wrong question- there are really gay male figure skaters? Because at least openly, gay male figure skaters are in the minority. From Outsports:

Unofficial insider estimates range [claim that] from 25% to nearly 50% [of male figure skaters are gay]. But unbelievably, in 2006, [Rudy] Galindo remains the only top-level skater to have come out while Olympic-eligible.

What hasn't changed is that many of the officials, judges, and skating federations, especially in the U.S., make it clear that they prefer male skaters to look "masculine" and will be harsher on effeminate-looking skaters when it comes to giving marks or desirable competitive assignments

Trying not to be deemed gay in skating requires behavior ranging from the overt, such as dating women, to details so subtle that they affect the very way the skater moves his limbs while putting himself out there to be judged.
There are some moves, such as laybacks and spirals, that are more frequently done by women and considered effeminate on men. Obviously, skaters like to include their strongest moves in their programs, but a male skater who is strong in these moves knows that to perform them is to risk prejudice.

That is so screwed up it’s sick. Who would’ve thought that in the gayest sport ever you could still be discriminated against for actually being gay.

But why would everyone just assume? From Salon.com

Former gold medalist Brian Boitano, addressing this phenomenon, explains it with three words: "Sequins and glitter."

None of the skaters in this year's [2002] Olympics -- for all the sequins, all the glitter, all the stereotypically gay mannerisms and speech patterns -- is publicly gay. In fact, only one international-level figure skater has ever openly declared himself a gay man -- Rudy Galindo, the 1996 U.S. champion, who came out in USA Today reporter Christine Brennan's book "Inside Edge" weeks before winning his title.

And Galindo says that almost every figure skater he's ever met is straight.

I never thought about it but is Brian Boitano gay? Not that it matters but I want to know (and no one seems to be sure)

It is a real shame though- if a boy, gay or not, wants to spin around in tights he should be allowed to, and be allowed to spin freely and openly no matter who he "practices his routine with" after hours.

(an admission- even though he’s really annoying and prissy a lot of the time I really think Johnny Wier is cute…in that Rufus way. They sort of like similar, don’t they?)

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Bizarre Beliefs Weekly

Where I judge and mock people based on their beliefs.
Why?
Because it’s Sunday, there are a lot of kooks out there and besides why should Scientologists be the only ones made fun of?

This week: Nuwaubianism
(all information cribbed from my god, Wikipedia)

Nuwaubianism is an umbrella term for the religious doctrines, historical and scientific beliefs of the followers of Malachi Z. York. These are sometimes referred to by such terms as “Nuwaubu”/“Nuwaupu”, “Wu-Nuwaubu”, “Right Knowledge”, “Sound Right Reasoning”, “Overstanding”, and “Factology” but have had many other names through the years. The Nuwaubians originated as a Black Muslim group in New York in the 1970s, and have gone through many changes since.

Nuwaubianism is an esoteric cosmology, a collection of religious teachings, a group of religious, tribal, and fraternal organizations, and a set of cultural practices that is multifaceted and ever-changing.

Nuwaubianism borrows from a wide range of sources which include Theosophy-derived New Age movements such as Astara as well as the Rosicrucians, Freemasonry, the Shriners, the Moorish Science Temple of America, the revisionist Christianity and Islam of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the numerology of Rashad Khalifa, the ancient astronaut theories of Zecharia Sitchin, the works of Richard Shaver (a proponent of the Hollow Earth theory), David Icke, the UFO mythology of greys and reptilians, the political and legal theories of patriot mythology, modern scientific and pseudoscientific legends like those of Area 51, the Philadelphia Experiment, Project Blue Book, Montauk Project, and MJ-12, popular conspiracy theories such as those about the Illuminati or the Bilderberg Group, and even a paperback on fortune-telling. The all-embracing belief system of Nuwaubianism actually pre-dates several of the influences that subsequently absorbed and adopted.

Journalist Adam Heimlich reviewed a number of York’s booklets in 2000 and wrote:
A partial list, from my notes, of places I’d encountered Nuwaubian notions before includes Chariots of the Gods and the Rael’s [sic] embellishments on that book, conspiracy lit, UFO lit, the human potential movement, Buddhism and new-age, astrology, theosophy and Blavatsky, Leonard Jeffries and other Afrocentrics, Cayce, LaRouche, alternative medicine, self-help lit, Satanism, the Atkins diet, numerology and yoga. Many of these York mentions by name. There are also extensive discourses on the Torah, Gospels and Koran, as well as on Rastafarianism, the Nation of Islam and the Five Percent Nation

York’s first publication was released in 1967 when he was 22 years old, and was entitled Bible Interpretations and Explanations. It taught biblical theology in a way that was distinct from a westernized orthodox Christian standard. At this time York referred to himself as Amunubi Rahkaptah, an Egyptian/Semitic hybrid name (Amun=Faithful, Nubi=Informer, Rah=Soul, Ka=Spirit, Ptah=Opener). His follow up publication along the same line of thought was a four part series called The Nine Ball, published in 1971, that was authored by three divine incantations of York known as “Wu Nupu, Asu Nupu and Naba Nupu.” The Nine Ball’s opening slogan was “LIBERATION INFORMATION for the Woolly-Haired People called the ETHIOPIAN RACE.” It focused on cosmology with an Afrocentric slant. In later lectures York claims his initial attempts at reaching his people though this teaching failed, and so he decided to adopt a more mainstream religious form.

In 1967, York began to teach Islam under the name “Imam Isa Abdullah Ibn Abu Bakr Muhammad” and started the Ansar Pure Sufi community. This eventually progressed and integrated under morphing organizational titles into, Islam (Ansaarullah), Sufism (Sons of the Green Light) Judaism (Nubian Islamic Hebrews), Christianity (The Holy Tabernacle Ministeries, The Egyptian Church of Karast), Freemasonry (The Nuwaubian Grand Lodge, The Supreme Grand Lodge, The International Supreme Council of Arab Shrinedom), Sumerian (Ancient Mystic Order of Melchizedek) and finally Egyptology (The Ancient Egyptian Order) where he began to once again refer to himself as “Amunubi Rahkaptah.” In each school York used a plethora of titles for himself, all befitting a “High Priest.”

During the 1980s York began using the phrase “I came giving you want you wanted, so that you would want what I have to give,” to explain his ever morphing and growing doctrine.

Some of York’s followers consider him to be a living god. At times he has encouraged this interpretation, and at other times, York has suggested that he is merely channeling the divine through various personalities He has also identified himself as Al-Khidr (“the green one”) and as Melchizedek (who York says is also the archangel Michael). In later years York dismissed bodily worship of himself in a preface that was published within all of his books:

" I am not the Lord Adonai, Jesus Messiah “The Christ”; nor am I a holy man, nor a preacher. I am a Master Teacher, a guide."

Nuwaubians also may view themselves as gods, using such sources as the Bible and Torah to validate their claims. Nuwaubians do not see the use of the word “god” as just referring to a universal creator, but also a title that one receives upon reaching a state of perfection or absolute power.

Much of the purpose of Nuwaubian doctrine and practice is to counteract what they call “the spell of Leviathan” or “the spell of Kingu.” In Nuwaubian mythology, Leviathan is a god associated with the moon, sex, and spirit — also known as Lucifer, Sin, Set, Thoth, Siva, Hermes, Jehovah, Poseidon and the biblical serpent.

Nuwaubians believe that the Spell of Leviathan was cast by the devil thousands of years ago to hypnotize Black people into “spiritual ignorance and racial indifference” through such media as the Bible and certain elements of popular culture.

Leviathan has many aliases:

Sam is short for one of his titles, SamaEl meaning “poison those of EL.” He knows his name. He calls himself Uncle Sam or Dr. Seuss (Zues) with his famous statement, “Sam I Am, I Am Sam.” This is what they teach the children; not ours however, for they will get right knowledge

Some of the Nuwaubian racial doctrine borrows from Moorish Science and the Nation of Islam. York’s racial philosophy explicitly indicates that certain blacks – "Nubians" or “Melanites” – are of a superior race in fact as well as in descent.

Periodically Nuwaubians will claim not to belong to a racist belief system, for instance quoting York’s statement: “We accept as fact that no one race of people is better than the other. In fact no one wins the race in racism.”

However, other statements from York and his followers indicate that his philosophy does ascribe moral characteristics based on race. For instance, in one lecture York said: “White people are the devil. They say the Nuwaubians are not racist – bullcrap! I am. He might not be; that’s his prerogative. I am. White people are devils — always was, always will be.”

"We must realize that when a people is trying to make themselves look bigger than others, they may take the main characters and heroes of a false or true story in religion and/or mythology and build their own story around the heroes and characters, and this means that the story may be greatly changed to suit the purpose of those rewriting it. "

—Rakhptah, Amunubi (Malachi York), Bible Interpretations and Explanations booklet one (1967), p. 22

While race is a centrally important concept in Nuwaubian thought, York’s teachings include many different racial origin myths that are difficult to reconcile. One version has the “Mongoloid” and “Caucasoid” races descending as inferior mutant versions of the original “Negroes”, with the Caucasians suffering from genetic albinism as evidence that they are at “the end of their genes.”However, most whites are said to not really be Caucasian, but Negroid Mulattos or “coloreds”; it is only those with blond hair and blue eyes who are Aryan Caucasians.

White people (sometimes also referred to as “Amorites,” “Hyksos,” “Canaanites,” “Tamahu,” or “Mankind”) are said in one Nuwaubian myth to have been originally created as a race of killers to serve blacks as a slave army, but this plan went awry:

The Caucasian has not been chosen to lead the world. They lack true emotions in their creation. We never intended them to be peaceful. They were bred to be killers, with low reproduction levels and a short life span. What you call Negroid was to live 1,000 years each and the other humans 120 years. But the warrior seed of Caucasians only 60 years. They were only created to fight other invading races, to protect the God race Negroids. But they went insane, lost control when they were left unattended. They were never to taste blood. They did, and their true nature came out.… Because their reproduction levels were cut short, their sexual organs were made the smallest so that the female of their race will want to breed with Negroids to breed themselves out of existence after 6,000 years. It took 600 years to breed them, part man and part beast.

Nubians are said to be only accidentally a “brown” race – they have rusted in Earth’s atmosphere from their original green color because the magnesium in their melanin has been replaced by iron. The original, supreme, “Ether 9 beings” in Nuwaubian mythology were also green because of chlorophyll in their skin.

Some human varieties are explained by variations in extra-terrestrial descent. Morbidly obese people, for instance, may be descended from the grotesque and elephant-nosed Deros (see also: Richard Sharpe Shaver); people with Down’s Syndrome may be descended from the 48-chromosomed Teros. (Some Teros are said to live underground on Earth today, with some resembling humans so much that they can come to the surface and mingle with us without being noticed.)

Another Nuwaubian explanation of racial difference has various human types evolving from various primate species, with some Caucasians deriving from cross-breeding the baboon and orangutan, Pygmys from the chimpanzee and gibbon, and so forth.

Other Nuwaubian explanations of racial differences draw on the Hebrew creation myths from Genesis: “Nubians are Hamites through the sons of Ham and Mizraim (Genesis 10:6). The paleman is a Hamite through Ham’s fourth son, Libana (Canaan) whose descendants inherited his curse of leprosy (Genesis 10:15-18) Another explanation has Caucasians descended from Cain: “Adam and Eve were sent to the Aegean Islands between Asia and Europe, where they started having children, and each couple’s first born child was an Albino and those Albinos are called Cain in the Bible, and Cain is short for Caucasian”

The pale man originated from the Caucasus mountains, where there was very little plant life and not much means for salt. This condition forced him to rob the Nubian female of her chastity in order to keep his seed alive, it’s called integration. The Caucasian woman who was left in the mountains, resorted to lying with and having sex with beasts: such as the jackal, which is an ancestor of today’s dog. The phrase “dog is man’s best friend” came from this situation. The dog would lick the festered sores of the leper and clean them for him. His seed was kept alive because the Caucasian woman and the jackal mated. This is where you get people who possess an animalistic nature.

Nuwaubians believe that miscegenation is causing a new race to develop, the “Neutranoids,” who are of no discernible distinct race and are being encouraged and exploited by sinister forces who are against “right racism” and humanity’s natural diversity

In Nuwaubian doctrine, there is a moral law that people are required to respect each other, and also a moral law that races are required to respect each other. The “Code of Races” requires that a person not do something wrong to another person because they are of a different race (“unless justice requires it”), and also requires that people be loyal to their own race.

During a 6,000 year “moon cycle,” people are said to be freed to violate these moral laws — but the consequences of this are not avoided but only deferred, and may fall upon the children of the wrong-doer, or their children. We are said to be currently at the end of this cycle and the guilty people and guilty races are due to meet their just punishment in an Armageddon in which only the innocent will survive

York once explained the “Tamahus” (whites) this way: “[They] have an unlit solar plexus sun, they only have a moon or lunar plexus. It reflects your sun light as they take your soul (sun).” White people with their “thin yellow or opaque hair” reflect the sun, and so “the sun’s energy can’t keep them charged with sol (soul).”

The Tam’a-hu’s Time Is Over And They Are Falling Out Daily Because They Are Not Sun People. They Are Moon People, And The Moon Cycle Is Over. They Are Dying Of Cancer And Diseases Caused By The Intense Heat And Rays Of The Sun’s Ultraviolet Rays That’s Depleting The Ozone Layer. The Luciferian Which Means “Light Bearer” Is Using His Same Tactic Of Depleting The Ozone Layer On This Planet Like He Did On Rizq.

Furthermore:

The Caucasoids Has Thinner Skin Than You, Thinner Flank Hair, Lighter Eyes, With No Soul. The Caucasoid Try To Claim That The Only Difference Between A White Man And A Black Man Is The Skin Color, However, The DNA Analysis Which Is Under Your Black Or White Skin, Determines That Under The Skin, The Whole Structure Of These Two Races Are Totally Different. The Caucasoid Breath Differently Than The Negroids Do. We As Negroid, Breath In Thru Our Nose, While The Caucasoids Breathe Mostly In Their Mouth. The Caucasoids Are Trying To Intake Your Breath That You Breath Out, Because They Need It To Keep Their Pilot—Lunar Plexus Lit Inside To Try And Re-light Their Central Light. That's Why Those That Hang Around, Live With Or Marry Blacks, Change, Act And Think Like Blacks. Other Caucasoids Walk Stiff, While Negroids Walk With Soul And Life. The Caucasoid Breed In Litters Like Animals, 6 Or 7 At A Time, While Negroids Give Birth To 1 Or 2 Babies At A Time. Their Hair Grows Lank And Lifeless Towards The Ground, While Our Hair Grows Up, And Is Full Of Energy Toward The Sun. We As Negroids Are Physically, Mentally, And Spiritually Different Than The Caucasoids.


York has claimed to be an extraterrestrial master teacher from the planet Rizq. York wrote, “We have been coming to this planet before it had your life form on it.… My incarnation as an Ilah Mutajassid or Avatara was originally in the year 1945 A.D. In order to get here I travelled by one of the smaller passenger crafts called SHAM out of a Motherplane called MERKABAH or NIBIRU.” This version of York came to Earth on 16 March 1970. (Comet Bennett, which was visible on that date, is said to have really been York’s spacecraft).

York taught that the Motherplane/NIBIRU would launch the Crystal City or New Jerusalem (see: Book of Revelation 21:2) to our solar system from its position in Orion. A 40-year process of taking the 144,000 Chosen Few (see: Book of Revelation 14:1) — 12,000 each from the Twelve Tribes of Israel — into the Planet Craft NIBIRU began on 12 August 2003 and will end on 12 August 2043.

These Chosen Few will be groomed for 1,000 years and returned to Earth for the final battle against the Luciferians and also to redeem man from the 6,000 year rulership of the Devil and his seed. Though August 12, 2003, the beginning of this process, passed without incident, it has been taught that the August 14, 2003 blackout of the Eastern United States and Canada marked the beginning of this Rapture-like event. The superficial similarity of these beliefs to those of the Heaven’s Gate cult led to some worried newspaper articles after that cult’s mass suicide during the appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997, in which the cult was reported to have said that a spacecraft was following the comet.

York told his followers that in 1952, grotesque extraterrestrial Andromedeans that resembled the Predator met with and frightened U.S. President Harry S. Truman. Other extraterrestrials have been trading with Earth since the Eisenhower administration, and are responsible for giving us technologies ranging from the polio vaccine to the hula hoop. Earth is said to still be visited by extraterrestrials, some of which prey on human children.

Currently, there are said to be over 70 different species of “Grey” and 16 different species of “Reptilians” on Earth. Human fetuses are said to go through Reptilian and Grey stages during their development (and if they are born prematurely, they will remain Reptilians or Greys).

Among the reasons why these things are not widely acknowledged, according to York, is that extraterrestrials plant ideas and images in the minds of the makers of Hollywood movies about extraterrestrials so that these fictional stories can be used to discredit people who know the truth. Examples of movies with such encoded content about the reality of aliens among us are those in the Star Wars series:

Yoda… is short for Judah. Freemasons are inspired by one entity and that is a grey, by the name of Yoda. Yoda guides Freemasonry back to Judah, with the ancient Israel masonry. The British “Covenant Of Man” symbolizes the empire striking back. America is the empire fighting to overthrow Europe.… The word Yoda is not an English word as you have been led to believe. Its root word yawdaw appears 111 times in the Old Testament, means “to give thanks or praise, throw down, cast, shoot.” The word Yadah meaning, to “to praise, give thanks” stems from the root word Yawdaw and appears only two times in the Old Testament (Daniel 2:23, Daniel 6:10). Not to mention the fact Yoda played in [the film] Return of the Jedi, and the word jedi is the same as yeti, it’s just a matter of a letter, it’s really the same word. Yeti is the name of Sasquatch (Bigfoot), also called Seti which is equivalent to the Extraterrestrials called the Seirians.

Other Nuwaubian beliefs:

• Saturn is not actually a planet, but a gaseous ball adjacent to Titan, one of Saturn's moons which the Nuwauabians regard as a planet. The head and hat of Santa Claus are symbolic representations of Saturn, Titan, and Saturn's rings.
• Thomas Paine plagiarized the U.S. Constitution from the unwritten Constitution of the Iroquois.
• The Pyramids of Egypt are, among other things, electromagnetic antennas that create standing columnar waves of tachyon energy to prevent the wobbling of the Earth.
• “The Koran called the Holy Qur’aan or the glorious Qur’aan as held in the hands of Muslims today is a product of Jewish scholars and the Catholic Church’s branch of the Jesuit priest under Pope Augustine.”
• “[A]ll courtrooms in America today are commercial marketplaces dealing in matters bearing exclusively upon private, commercial scrip known as Federal Reserve Notes. Today’s courtrooms are impersonal businesses under jurisdiction of a foreign, occupying, military power that are managed from the bench (from the Italian banca:bank) by merchant bankers called ‘judges’ and ‘magistrates’ who enforce private, copyrighted, corporate policy (known as code) wholly owned by British corporations.”
• The Earth is hollow and contains cities populated by different species of people, such as the Deros, the Teros, the Flugelrods, the Duwanis, the Dunakial, and the Anunnaqi. The legends of the Sumerians, Ancient Egyptians, Aztecs, Olmecs, Mayans, Hopi, and Hindus speak of these things (for instance, the story of the river Styx). Many of the chambers of the Egyptian pyramids lead to this subterranean world.
• Human origins
• Everyone is originally conceived as twins, but usually only one of the twins survives to be born.
• It is important to bury the afterbirth so that Satan does not use it to make a duplicate of the recently-born child.
• Furthermore, some aborted fetuses survive their abortion to live in the sewers, where they are being gathered and organized to take over the world.
• People were once perfectly symmetrical and ambidextrous, but then a meteorite struck Earth and tilted its axis causing handedness and shifting the heart off-center in the chest.
• Reincarnation has a physical as well as spiritual aspect:
• The physical body, when one dies, recycles from the ground in which it’s planted, it then penetrates into the atmosphere as film or dust particles and are breathed into the nostrils of human beings where they are recycled by triggering nerves in the sinus cavity. This sinus cavity works like a kidney to sift out the unneeded particles and relates the chemical composure [sic] of that which is needed into the mother’s blood stream and the human flesh is reanimated and this is the process by which a child is given form or flesh in the Mother’s womb.
• Each of us has seven clones: "Clones are in tune with each other unconsciously and linked etherically, which means anything that happens to you the cloned counterparts of you feels also. For instance you may feel a sharp pain, for no apparent reason like your hand may feel like it has been cut and that is because your clones hand may have been. You can have an emotional break down out of the “clear blue sky” because one of your counterparts did. For instance me, I have had smoke come out of my mouth, it was a strange tobacco, for no apparent reason. It turned out my duplicate in Tibet smokes and the smoke came through me. I do not smoke anything."
• Women existed for many generations before they invented men through genetic manipulation.– yet: " The great pharmacist and chemist Nergal Shar’etsar Ruler of the Underworld, was also involved in the breeding process of the new beings (Homo Sapiens). When Adam was a child of two years of age, three years of real time, the scientist Nergal went into his bone marrow to take blood to mix it in to create Eve, which was then implanted into the womb of Anath, Mother of Eve. This bone marrow is what religious scholars say is the rib (tsala’) in the Bible."
• Homo sapiens is the result of cloning experiments that were done on Mars using Homo erectus.
• “When the Earth shifts, babies will stop being born and that day will come soon. Babies are not really being born anymore. They are being cloned.”
• Edward Leedskalnin and Nikola Tesla were Venusians.
• Animal origins
• Birds evolved from fish, not from reptiles. And some species of dinosaur, for instance the Tyrannosaurus Rex, evolved from extra-terrestrial greys.
• The pig was created by Imhotep and Zoser during the time of Abraham, by grafting cells from the dog, cat and rat together, and was designed to help dispose of leprous corpses.
• Anti-Nubian conspiracies
• “Haven’t you ever wondered why for the simplest blood tests your doctor needs 4 tubes of blood? Where is all this blood going? The albino man’s ‘blood bank’ is just a sophisticated way of getting all the blood he needs! It is still a form of vampirism.”
• Alcoholic beverages are made cheaply available to Nubians by the powers that be in order to preserve their blood and organs better “(just like they preserve organs in jars in laboratories)” for later extraction.
• Disco was created by the devil to win the souls of the Nubians: “The evil one knows that he can control the music world as long as his agents are within the A & R (Artists and Repertoire, who are responsible for choosing who makes it in the music world) of the well known companies. He cannot evaluate Latin or Black music because he (the evil one) has no soul. He only duplicates it… He had to come up with something to win our souls through his means, and he did it with disco.”
• There is an underground road connecting New York and London. Furthermore, Alternative 3 is a fact, and Mars is being prepared for the evacuation of Earth’s intellectual and political elite.
• “[P]eople like the Pope, and Queen of England and various political leaders of various countries and some members of the clergy gather at the major Sabbats to invoke the malevolent one. On each of these occasions a Nubian man is sacrificed.”
• The Illuminati have nurtured a child, Satan's son, who was born on 6 June 1966 at the Dakota House on 72nd Street in New York to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis of the Rothschild/Kennedy families. The Pope was present at the birth and performed necromantic ceremonies. The child was raised by former U.S. president Richard Nixon and now lives in Belgium, where it is hooked up bodily to a computer called “The Beast 3M” or “3666.” [ED. Note: That was one my absolute favorite]

According to York, just as with our missing barathary glands we have lost our ability to sense many things, our relationship to time has also degraded and restricted our ability to see certain dimensions:

The time and space relationship is linked to the human and Earth’s bio-rhythms, and that determines how many dimensions for a world, which in your case is a third-dimension reality, are up for grabs. This is dealing with the extra space we have in our time. Let me explain. The clocks on Earth used to have a “tick” and a “tock.” Now there is only the “tick.” So time has been changed, and that missing “tock” is up for grabs that can be utilized by extraterrestrial beings who overstand this “altered time,” and they can come in and out of this dimension at will.
Nuwaubians try to discover the deeper meanings of words by using a method in which words are decomposed into syllables and then phrases are created using similarly-sounding syllables, so that for instance caucasian becomes “carcass-asian,”extraterrestrials becomes “extra-terra-astrals,” gospel becomes “ghost spell,” Jesus becomes “Jah+Zeus,” planet becomes “plan E.T.,” and television becomes “tell lie vision

And about their spiritual leader (name umm..a little uncertain)

[He] himself was far from chaste. He explained to his followers:

I do not live under your law, I am not a student enrolled under Earth principles, I don’t have the morals you have, your idea of morals is different. Go back in ancient times, you’ll find out that Anu was married to his sister… and Ishtar was married to her son back then that existed. …I come from a world where we don’t have your laws, and the way we go about things is different. I come from the Pharaoh’s world and in the Pharaoh’s world the Pharaoh saw Sarah, he saw her with himself so he took her. In Abraham’s world that was the wrong thing to do, but the Pharaoh didn’t care about Abraham’s world because he was living in his world and his ritual…

In 2002, York was arrested and charged with over a hundred counts of sexually molesting dozens of children, some as young as four years old.

According to Bill Osinski, who wrote a book on the case:
“When he was finally indicted, state prosecutors literally had to cut back the number of counts listed — from well beyond a thousand to slightly more than 200 — because they feared a jury simply wouldn’t believe the magnitude of York's evil.… [It] is believed to be the nation’s largest child molestation prosecution ever directed at a single person, in terms of number of victims and number of alleged criminal acts.

York was arrested in 2002, and was later sentenced to 135 years in prison

His followers continue to disseminate his teachings as he continues to develop them from behind bars

(oh and on the cover to one of their publications they used Darth Maul, apparently to represent the Devil and of course they’re Republicans)

(more info-and videos!-here )

So so bizarre
P.S. Barack is a Nuwaubian* or at least a Neutranoid. Wesley Snipes is one though.

*possibly not true

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Is It Next Season Yet?

because I kinda really want to buy a ticket for this game.
According to the Fanhouse:

The San Diego Chargers will take on the New Orleans Saints in London on October 26, the San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting.

"We want to go," Chargers president Dean Spanos told the newspaper. "I'm cautiously optimistic."

The Chargers said on their official web site that they're ready to go:

"The Commissioner and I talked about two and half months ago and we talked again as recently as last week," said Spanos, a member of the NFL's International Committee. "Should this occur, we would welcome the opportunity."
"This would be a positive announcement in a number of ways. First, it shows that the Chargers clearly have become one of the NFL's marquee franchises; a team with a strong following that the League is proud of. Second, it would be good exposure for our organization, for the players and for the city of San Diego. And finally, I believe it would give the team added experience from playing in another big game."

The game will be the second regular-season game outside North America, after the Giants played the Dolphins at Wembley Stadium in 2007. The NFL's strategy of broadening its international appeal has also included a regular-season game in Mexico City, and the Bills are expected to play a home game in Toronto in 2008. The trip to London for the Chargers will be the farthest any NFL team has ever had to travel for a regular-season game.

The London game will be the eighth game of the season for both the Chargers and the Saints, and both teams will have their byes the following week. The game is considered a Saints home game, meaning the Saints will have only seven games at the Superdome, while the Chargers will have the usual allotment of eight games at Qualcomm Stadium.

That would actually be a tremendous game, not to mention showcasing a lot of marketable stars and good guys like LT and Drew "Like a Cool" Brees. And this way people could actually see decent football and not be turned off by it, like even I was with whatever happened between the Giants and the Dolphins.Imagine being exposed to "American Football" for the first time with that Let's hope though that there's not a 30 foot robot of Phil Rivers as promotion, though- that would be terrifying...and probably classless

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Cringe Worthy

first in a possible new series where I share things that made me so incredibly uncomfortable while watching.
This inaugural edition was sparked by a link in Bill Simmons' latest linkapalooza and it is of an incredibly incredibly awkward encounter between Jeffrey Ross, Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Lorenzo Lamas from the March 12th, 2003 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Prepare to cringe

Lorenzo Lamas on Jimmy Kimmel Live - March 12, 2003
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God that was so uncomfortable.
A Note from the Simmons article: "After the show, Lorenzo challenged Jeff to a boxing match and Jeff declined." Not surprising at all

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Five Years

Pushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think
you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years

David Bowie- Five Years [download]

I can’t believe I forgot it on Friday but in those last few minutes of sleep this morning I’m not sure why my mind drifted to it but I either remembered the December 21, 2012 Mayan Prophecy or that David Bowie song (sung above in his Thin White Duke glory) 5 years but no matter in what order it came, there may be less than 5 years until apocalypse or rebirth or something. It doesn’t matter much though either way; I always love a good mystery and always work better under deadline.

Here's a short "crackpot" video:
(p.s. you'll probably want to turn down the volume for this)

And though that was incredibly cheesy and right wing (admittedly I can see Barack being The Anti-Christ[UPDATE: I'm glad I'm not the only one]) it did spark some more research on my own, and even though with things as vague or malleable as prophecies they can be twisted to fit any time it was still really [interesting/worrying] intriguing.

Pole Shift Theory

One early popular proponent of a pole shift theory was Hugh Auchincloss Brown, an electrical engineer who advanced a theory of catastrophic pole shift. Brown argued that accumulation of ice at the poles caused recurring tipping of the axis in cycles of approximately 7 millennia.

Charles Hapgood is now perhaps the best remembered early proponent, from in his books The Earth's Shifting Crust (1958) (which includes a foreword by Albert Einstein) and Path of the Pole (1970). Hapgood speculated that the ice mass at one or both poles over-accumulates which destabilizes the earth's rotational balance, causing slippage of all or much of earth's outer crust around the earth's core, which retains its axial orientation. Based on his own research, he argued that each shift took approximately five thousand years, followed by 20 to 30 thousand year periods with no polar movements. Also, in his calculations, the area of movement never covered more than 40 degrees. His examples of recent locations for the North Pole include the Yukon Territory, Hudson Bay, and in the Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Norway.

This is an example of slow pole shift motion, which displays the most minor alterations and no destruction. A more dramatic view assumes more rapid changes, with dramatic alterations of geography and localized areas of destruction due to earthquakes and tsunamis. Several recent books propose changes that take place in weeks, days, or even hours, resulting in a variety of doomsday scenarios.

Regardless of speed, the results of a shift occurring results in major climate changes for most of the earth's surface, as areas that were formerly equatorial become temperate, and areas that were temperate become either more equatorial or more arctic.

Hapgood wrote to Canadian librarian, Rand Flem-Ath, encouraging him in his pursuit of scientific evidence to back Hapgood's claim and in his expansion of the theory. Flem-Ath published the results of this work in 1995 in When the Sky Fell co-written with his wife, Rose.

Other theories which are not dependent upon polar ice masses include those involving:

* a high-velocity asteroid or comet which hits Earth at such an angle that the lithosphere moves independent of the mantle
* a high-velocity asteroid or comet which hits Earth at such an angle that the entire planet shifts axis.
* an unusually magnetic celestial object which passes close enough to Earth to temporarily reorient the magnetic field, which then “drags” the lithosphere about a new axis of rotation. Eventually, the sun's magnetic field again determines the Earth's, after the intruding celestial object “returns” to a location from which it cannot influence Earth.
* perturbations of the topography of the core-mantle boundary, perhaps induced by differential core rotation and shift of its axial rotation vector, leading to CMB mass redistributions.
* mass redistributions in the mantle from mantle avalanches or other deformations.

Nostradamus' Quatrain 10 72 interpreted to be NIBIRU a comet to strike Earth around the year 2012

The Prophecy of St. Malachy and his 112 popes and coming from a 12th Century Bishop the last few popes and prophecies seem to match up eerily enough

• 258 Leo XIII (1878-1903) 102 Lumen in cælo(Light in the Heavens)
• Hist.: Leo XIII wrote encyclicals on Catholic social teaching that were still being digested 100 years later. He added considerably to theology.
• 259 St. Pius X (1903-1914) 103 Ignis ardens (ardent fire)
• Hist.: The Pope had great personal piety and achieved a number of important reforms in the devotional and liturgical life of priests and laypeople.
• 260 Benedict XV (1914-1922) 104 Religio depopulata (Religion laid waste)
• Hist.: This Pope reigned during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which store the establishment of Communism.
• 261 Pius XI (1922-1939) 105 Fides intrepida (Intrepid faith)
• Hist.: This Pope stood up to Fascist and Communist forces lining up against him in the lead up to World War II.

• 262 Pius XII (1939-1958) 106 Pastor angelicus (Angelic Shepherd)
• Hist.: This Pope was very mystical, and is believed to have received visions. People would kneel when they received telephone calls from him. His encyclicals add enormously to the understanding of Catholic beliefs (even if they are now overlooked because of focus on the Second Vatican Council, which occurred so soon after his reign).
• 263 John XXIII (1958-1963) 107 Pastor et Nauta (pastor and marine)
• Hist.: prior to his election he was patriarch of Venice, a marine city, home of the gondolas
• 264 Paul VI (1963-1978) 108 Flos florum (flower of flowers)
• Hist.: his arms displayed three lilies.
• 265 John Paul I (1978) 109 De medietate Lunæ (of the half of the moon)
• Hist.: Albino Luciani, born in Canale d'Agardo, diocese of Belluno, (beautiful moon) Elected pope on August 26, his reign lasted about a month, from half a moon to the next half...

• 266 John Paul II (1978-2005) 110 De labore Solis (of the eclipse of the sun, or from the labour of the sun)
• Hist.: Karol Wojtyla was born on May 18, 1920 during a solar eclipse. He also comes from behind the former Iron Curtain (the East, where the Sun rises). He might also be seen to be the fruit of the intercession of the Woman Clothed with the Sun labouring in Revelation 12 (because of his devotion to the Virgin Mary). His Funeral occurred on 8 April, 2005 when there was a solar eclipse visible in the Americas.
• 267 Benedict XVI (2005-) 111 Gloria olivæ
• The Benedictine order traditionally said this Pope would come from their order, since a branch of the Benedictine order is called the Olivetans. St Benedict is said to have prophesied that before the end of the world, a member of his order would be Pope and would triumphantly lead the Church in its fight against evil. While the Holy Father chose the name "Benedict", this does not seem enough to fulfil the prophecy. Nor is it clear how Benedict XVI (a Bavarian) is "Glory of the Olives". Since he is said to have remarked in the Conclave after saying he would take the name Benedict that it was partly to honour Benedict XV, a pope of peace and reconciliation, perhaps Benedict XVI will be a peacemaker in the Church or in the World, and thus carry the olive branch.

And the next prophecy for Pope 112? Petrus Romanus?
In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit Petrus Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus: quibus transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, & Judex tremêdus judicabit populum suum. Finis.
(In extreme persecution, the seat of the Holy Roman Church will be occupied by Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep through many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the formidable Judge will judge his people. The End.)

Hmm, I think I may go check out Berea, Kentucky

“It is the end of the world, as we know it - nothing more and nothing less.”
In a way that is a horribly exciting and comforting thought



and yeah I know that it’s probably not going to happen , but it’s fun to think so.
Anyway we’re all peacing out by the year 1 mil so drink and be merry for (on some) tomorrow we die.
Carpe diem that shit and que sera, sera

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