Warzone – “…Filthy streets, a drive by shooting, multiple cars crashed in the process, and total chaos on the streets. This is unacceptable and must be controlled before we totally lose our city, tourism & residents. It is not limited to Ocean Drive or Collins [in South Beach, FL] – there isn’t a residential street not affected by tons of garbage, crime to our vehicles, excessive noise 24 hours a day, and simply a lack of respect for our community, citizens & property. THIS [referring to the video above] is the image the world sees of our “American Riviera”… Here. Well, amigo, imagine what it will be like in twenty years? Wait, on second thought try not to think about it. Here’s another story on Miami weekend….BTW, there has been a ton of these kinds of riots going on throughout the country.
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Yes, the Grand Banana Republic is a frightening place anymore, especially when cops like to make believe they’re in a real war zone, you know, making believe they’re like troops in Afghanistan or Iraq who are in the midst of very lethal roadside bombs and suicide bombers and Islamic death squads; but hell, the cops are wearing super neato homeland security uniforms with Kevlar vests and helmet cams just like Seal Team Six and have cool face masks and are driving armored vehicles and have fun automatic weapons, and so hell let’s have a shoot ‘em up guys…bambambam…(ure beats tasering eighty-year old jaywalkers for a change) get us some action like the boys overseas. Here’s the scene. They kiss their wives goodbye at the door. Hon, I’m on a dangerous mission to the suburbs; there’s this possible illegal marijuana weed grower guy and his wife sleeping in bed and they have their dangerous little kid in the crib and maybe even a barking dog with teeth but hell, hon, somebody gotta battle these damn suburbanites.
Quick note: While police brutality, and abuse by authority figures in general, often offend our sense of what it means to be civilized (wondering why cops so often abuse their authority over even the slightest provacation) keep in mind the infamous and chilling psych experiment Obedience to Authority and read the book The Lucifer Effect (by the same psychologist). You may find something disturbing, that in the same situation (official uniform, authority to act with impunity from superiors, etc) you (and I) may be capable of the same sort of behavior.
Related: “It was a trial that bared some anxieties that run just below the city’s surface: the weakness of a drunken memory; the vulnerability of ordinary residents to abuse from the powerful, especially in a police uniform…” Here.
Related: Uniformed crotch grabber. Here.
I wonder if now the ripening El Paso, TX will finally pass–well let’s call it the Feces and Urine Act of 2011?
Now what incredibly idiotic government could possibly be using tax dollars to fund a study of Jello wrestling in Antarctica? Huh?
Imprisonment for profit. The biggest prison population in the world.
Great news. After several deaths and serious injuries have been reported a safer planking way of life is being demonstrated by some Taiwanese girls. No need to plank (just in case you ever find yourself in a grammatical quandary about the declension of this term I believe the past tense is plunked) on a fast moving car; now it can be accomplished on steps or flat ground. Once again China rules.
“Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio that he believes there will be an increase in crime if the lockout continues into the regular season. The 36-year-old said that people, not just NFL players, will turn to criminal activity without a regular season because ’there’s nothing else to do.’ ” (Here) Full story here.
Most Grand Banana Republicans “know very little about the war between Japan and China that preceded World War II, but that brutal conflict colors the relationship between those Asian powers till today.” Here (includes movie trailer). Speaking of the war between Japan and China when the hell is Shanghai going to be released? I’m waaaaaaaaiting…
The stinkin’ doublecross, in which Dix (Sterling Hayden), a hard character to be sure, pulls his gun real fast, and puts some lead through the lowdown conniving pumper of a trigger happy doublecrosser. Yeah, Dix takes a slug through his right side but most importantly he recoups the jewels for Doc Riedenschneider (“One way or another, we all work for our vice”). In my humble opinion the best scene in the film noir masterpiece, The Asphalt Jungle)
Hey embedding for this has been terminated, but you can still watch it directly on Youtube.
Study Mandarin (FMC is). After all, to quote Martin Jacque’s When China Rules (p. 399), “With the rise of China…growing numbers of people around the world are beginning to acquire Chinese as a seconde language.” Don’t be left out.
Related: Every new world order comes with an underwear exhibition, and the Chinese new world order is no exception.
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Personal Note: I’m sorry to keep celebrating China’s rise but I’ve been dating a quite beautiful Chinese university student from Shanghai and she says if I stop praising her country she won’t let me lick her feet anymore.)
Yes, folks, this is a third world subway ride in the Grand Banana Republic.
Related: Talking of mouth stuff take a gander at this all so human story: “…A frantic [Janice] Dickinson got down on all fours like ‘Lucille Ball on crack,’ and coerced the clientele into helping her locate the pearly whites, which, health inspectors-be-damned, were ultimately found.” Great news, huh?
I’m reading this book now (When China Rules the World:The End of the Western World and the Birth of the New Global Order) ; this interview serves as a good introduction. As China’s economy is even now about to surpass ours, and will eventually, perhaps within a generation, be double that of the Grand Banana Republic, it’s cultural and political influence will also dominate (not only given impetus by China’s rolling financial resources but by our own decay through ideological multiculturalism and the kind of capitalism that finances its own demise).
I’m a B-movie fan, especially of the old sci fi genre, and well, sadly I just read about Yvette Vickers (81), of Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman fame (I recently saw this again; I don’t think she was the fifty foot woman herself–she was the other woman, the party girl floozy, in the movie, the one that got the fifty foot woman so jealously vengeful), being found mummified in her home the other day. Evidently she had been dead for a year before being found. RIP
Check this article on some other B actresses who are no longer with us. “…The larger-than-life star of this cult Russ Meyer [Faster Pussycat--Kill Kill] movie passed away from heart failure earlier this year at 72. She had a tough childhood in Chicago, where she was raped aged just nine by five men. In 1973 Tura [Satana] was shot by a drug-crazed ex but survived. In 1981 she was hit by an unlicensed driver, at 60mph in a 25mph zone. She was in hospital for two years…” .
