Why Yellow Fever is Bad for the Asian community

INTELLIGENT, cultured, 22y/o wm seeking Asian women (pref. Nihonese)

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Date: 2008-10-16, 3:29AM EDT

Hello ladies of the internet!I am here today, as are you, to find the love of my life ideally. Now, I am an introspective and reflective man so over my life I’ve come to realise exactly what I’m looking for in my ideal woman.

Personally, I am 22 years old, my name is Perseus, I am attending U of T in the final year of my Engineering degree, and I am a little on the chubby side. I am a dedicated Green party voter and staunchly opposed to the Conversative hordes dashing themselves against the impregnable Liberal/NDP/Green keep of our fine enlightened city. I am fond of discussing philosophy and the meaning of life over a glass of wine in the ‘even. As hobbies go, I am an avid gamer and enjoy delving into the myriad artistic realities of animé (the origin of my affinity for Asian culture, which is frankly superior).

You MUST fulfill the following requirements:
- Asian
- Woman
- Aged NO MORE THAN 23
- – and NO LESS THAN 16
- Petite build. Ideally no more than 115 lbs.
- – but no ‘Paris Hilton’ bulimics please! I like my women with some meat on them.
- Like sushi, animé, and video games.

BONUSES include:
- Japanese heritage
- Large collection of animé and manga
- Glasses
- Interest in cosplay and roleplaying
- Traditional Ladies’ education

I must stress again that this is for a SERIOUS, long term relationship. Not some ‘fling’ as though I were a boy toy to be tossed aside.

• Location: Toronto
• it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

These people scare me. I sometimes see them in networking events or meetups crowding around the cute Asian girl and scaring the crap around them. Once that girl starts talking to one of them, the rest swarm in like sharks in a feeding frenzy on a wounded dolphin. Obviously the sharks being the weird White guys and the dolphin being the girl in this example. The more you know…

Some activists and feminists have interpreted Yellow Fever as a form of racist love.

In Case You Missed It: Barry H. Obama’s 30-min infomercial

I missed most of the infomercial except for the live speech that came at the end.  Fortunately, the Obama-Biden camp posted the infomercial on youtube and other news organisations did a recap of the main points.

Here is the video:

I hope they don’t rig the election as depicted in this Simpsons episode:

Otherwise its going to be a very dangerous Wednesday (the day after Election Day).

It’s a wonderful world after all

So begins another week of nuttiness in the world markets.  The Nikkei has gone back 25 years in time with the current decline in their index and this will again unleash a vicious reaction in the other markets once they open in the coming hours.  Despite all of this nonsense, most people should not let it get to them until the day Wal-Mart becomes unaffordable and when people actually have to use cash instead of credit card to make any purchases.

On the upside, today is a great week to be a Japanese or even an American tourist.  Suddenly things have become much more affordable for these tourists.  The Yen-USD exchange rate may be incredibly shitty but no one will really bat an eye until the day Playstation 3s, JDM aftermarket parts, and Honda Civics become too pricey for the average guy.  Most of what I am talking about may seem like rocket science to McCain supporters like Joe the Plumber and the Sarah Palins of “real” America.

Still, I do hope Obama does win the election next week.  I know some Ron Paul supporters are going to scream treason or socialist sellout for my choice, but Obama is the one who actually wants to get the hell out of Iraq and the Republicans need to be punished for nominating McCain and Palin as their candidates.  Ron Paul had a strong message but he was not the right man to promote it in this day and age.

If Dr. Paul had Mitt Romney’s body, Mike Huckabee’s charm, and Obama’s youth, then I am sure many many more people would have listened, voted for him, and he would have made sincere reforms to this wreck of a country.  Unfortunately, we live in the real world and reality can be an bipolar bitch at times.

This clip shows how far we have fallen since the good old days of the Budweiser Wassup commercial:

Halloween costume

I was going to get one of the SAW costumes either as Jigsaw or the Pig Mask:

I think either of these would have been good if I had gotten them about 2 weeks ago.  Now it looks like every other person in Manhattan may go as Jigsaw at the weekend Halloween parties.  So instead of going for a movie character, I decided to get an orange convict costume:

It was a tough decision, but I think this will be simple and easy to go about in parties.  It was this or getting the Catholic Priest costume.

To kill time, I saw the Ang Lee’s Hulk, which was just awful.  The acting was good and I think most of the actors did the movie just to work with Ang Lee.  The story, however, was just godawful especially the last 15 minutes of the movie.  Most of all, the Hulk in that movie looked incredibly fake and they didn’t have Lou Ferrigno do the Hulk’s voice. The only thing I did get was Ang Lee’s use of multiple splitscreens to recreate the comic book effect. I am glad they tried to fix most of the movie with the “Incredible Hulk”.

Insight

I realised that I am one of those people who enjoys going out and being active in some form.  Otherwise, I tend to feel bored and in some cases very depressed.

Racism fuels final decision for Obama votes

BBC NEWS
‘Race question mark’ over US town

By Dumeetha Luthra
BBC News, Uniontown, Pennsylvania

Fayette County residents on the race issue “I’m not voting for Obama, he’s black.”

Charles is a registered Democrat in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

“If it wasn’t for Obama I would vote Democrat. Blacks just cause trouble, that’s the taste I’ve got in my mouth.”

Race is the question mark hanging over this election.

Barack Obama is ahead in the polls. There’s a widespread feeling now that the election is his to lose.

But there is something that is worrying Democrats. How accurate are the polls? How many voters are saying they will vote for Mr Obama because they do not want to be perceived as racist?

Once they enter the polling booth will it be an entirely different story?

Simply put, how many people out there think like Charles but are not admitting it?

‘Not from here’

Charles said the vast majority of his friends felt the same way as him.

Uniontown is a rural town in south-west Pennsylvania. Its countryside is breathtaking, particularly now as the leaves change their colour from green to gold to burnt red.

But the area is poor and unemployment is high. Traditionally it is staunchly Democrat – but race is an election issue.

At a local restaurant a friendly waitress started chatting to us. The conversation turned to politics.

She shrugged, she was not even sure when the election was to be held, she could not pronounce Mr Obama’s name.

“I like McCain because I can say his name, so I’ll probably vote for McCain.”

She was not well informed, but her views were clear.

“He’s from Africa or something. I don’t even know where he’s from. I know he grew up here, but he’s not from here. I think American presidents should be from America.”

These are not isolated opinions – just not often voiced publicly.

In the primaries 12% of voters across the state said race was a factor – and that is close to Mr Obama’s current lead in the polls here.

Recently, Congressman John Murtha had this to say about his home state: “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area”.

He did, however, predict that Mr Obama would still win the state, and he later apologised for the remarks.

The polls show Mr Obama is ahead in Pennsylvania, which also has a Democratic governor and traditionally huge Democratic majorities in the major cities – Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

‘A good show’

In Uniontown, of course I met Democrats who are voting for Mr Obama, and I also met a couple of Republicans who said they were voting Obama.

This is not about a town being racist, but rather how much the race issue is reflected in the polls.

At a local hunting shop there were a variety of opinions. Registered Democrat Tom Currens said he would vote for the Republican candidate John McCain, but not because he had a problem with Mr Obama’s racial background.

Todd Hackley, a registered Republican said he would vote for Mr McCain and had this to say on the race question:

“Race is an issue, it has to be, not that we want it to be. My thoughts are that Obama will get as many votes from the blacks, as he will not get from the whites.

“I do believe there are a lot of whites who won’t vote for him because of the colour of his skin, but I believe there are a lot of blacks who will vote for him because of his colour.”

Todd has always voted Republican and when I asked him if colour was an issue for him he said it might have been years ago, but not now.

Brandon Hafield said said he was undecided who to vote for, but when I asked if Mr Obama was a patriot he said no.

When I asked if he was American, he said: “I think he tried to be, I don’t think he is, he tries to put a good show for the people, but I don’t think he is.”

Local radio presenter Bob Fultz, who hosts a regular talk show, says prejudice is definitely present, even though few callers are willing to discuss it openly.

“White voters aren’t saying what they really think, whether that’s here in Fayette County or nationally. I had one caller who said he thinks Obama is Osama with plastic surgery.”

However, Mr Obama has gained points for his perceived ability to handle the credit crunch – and Uniontown has its own financial woes.

Russ Mechling is a retired engineer who used to be the president of the local company Fayette Engineering. He is a registered Democrat who will be voting for Mr Obama.

“There is a little bit of a racial backlash, but I think it’s becoming less and less as the economic situation gets worse and worse.

“I think that will probably cost McCain more votes than any other single factor.”
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7682876.stm

Published: 2008/10/24 01:04:24 GMT

The Bradley Effect is in play in the lesser parts of the United States.  It seems that Western Pennsylvania (with the exception of Pittsburgh) is rabidly backward, racist, and very uneducated.  It seems like these are the same people who voted for Bush in 2000, 2004 and will throw their with McCain so he can continue the War of Terror and bring America into a financial holocaust.

I do hope I am wrong and live to see Barry H. Obama become our 44th President so he can restore some sanity to the world and go after the real enemy in Afghanistan instead of dicking around in Iraq.

Introspective musicology: the soundtrack to our lives.

introspective musicology: the soundtrack to our lives. we all have them, some strange mixture of karaoke classics, queen-level ballads, heart thumping hip hop and head banging metal. the purpose of IM is exploring how one relates to these soundtracks, how an artist can understand another, not through interaction, but through those tracks that the individual feels is significant to their lives. it is an examination to symbolic meaning, as well as how individual pieces can create a collective whole.

Here are some that are the current soundtrack of my life (in no particular order) for a friend’s art project.  It has its ups and downs along with its moments:

1. Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again -

2. Joy Division – Atmosphere -

3. New Order – True Faith -

4. The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever -

5. The Beatles – Getting Better -

6. Faithless – God Is A DJ -

7. Angel y Khriz – Ven Bailalo -

8. Starsailor – Love is Here -

9. Madonna – I Want You (Feat. Massive Attack) -

10. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness -

11. Robbie Williams – Rock DJ -

12. David Bowie – I’m Afraid Of Americans -

13. U2 – With Or Without You -

14. Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The U.K -

15. The Chemical Brothers – Galvanize -

Saudi Arabia hates Facebook

Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

By Damien McElroy Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:39AM BST 01 Apr 2008

A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.

The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the al-Arabiya website reported.

The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the “strife” the social networking site is causing in the Islamic nation.

Saudi preacher Ali al-Maliki has emerged as the leading critic of Facebook, claiming the network is corrupting the youth of the nation.

“Facebook is a door to lust and young women and men are spending more on their mobile phones and the Internet than they are spending on food,” he said.

The woman was murdered in August but her death was highlighted following Maliki’s comments.

Social customs and religious rules oblige women in Saudi Arabia to cover their head and figure with a veil so that men are not distracted by the female form.

Critics also allege that Facebook is an avenue for the promotion of homosexual relations in Saudi Arabia. More than 6,500 people have signed the online petition in a bid to stop the conservative Muslim kingdom following Syria in banning access to the network from local internet servers.

There are estimated to be more than 30,000 Facebook users in the oil-rich kingdom. Many Saudi women use nicknames and post comic images or drawings on their pages instead of photographs. Some Saudi bloggers have dubbed the network “Faceless”.

Women users’ contact details and email addresses are often pseudonymous. The popularity of sites for singles has broken taboos on people making contact outside family and class connections.

One of the most popular Facebook groups among Saudi Arabian youth is Single and Looking in Saudi Arabia, which has 1,823 members and hosts many sexually explicit images.

And the world still buys oil from one of the last absolute and corrupt monarchies in the world?  Facebook is really becoming like myspace.  I hope Mark Zuckerberg and his team are happy.

Man killed wife in Facebook row

Man killed wife in Facebook row

A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook.

Wayne Forrester, 34, told police he was devastated that his wife Emma, also 34, had changed her online profile to “single” days after he had moved out.

The Old Bailey heard Forrester drove to her home in Croydon, south London, and attacked the mother-of-two.

He stabbed her with a kitchen knife and a meat cleaver on 18 February.

Forrester, who pleaded guilty to murder, was ordered to serve a minimum term of 14 years.

Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, told him: “You committed a terrible act. There is no possible excuse or justification.

“This is a tragic killing and what you have done has caused untold anguish.”

What on earth could Emma have done to result in such a brutal, callous attack?
Liza Rothery, victim’s sister

Forrester, an HGV driver, was drunk and high on cocaine when he attacked the mother of two in the early hours as she slept.

He beat her, tore out clumps of her hair, and repeatedly stabbed her in the head and neck.

Neighbours were woken up by her screams. They found him sitting outside the house covered in blood and called the police.

The court heard Forrester thought his wife, a payroll administrator, was having an affair and had threatened to kill her.

The couple, who had been together for 15 years, had a “volatile” marriage, jurors were told.

‘Devastated and humiliated’

The day before the murder, he called her parents and complained about his wife’s Facebook entry which he said “made her look like a fool”, the court heard.

In a statement to police Forrester said: “Emma and I had just split up. She forced me out.

“She then posted messages on an internet website telling everyone she had left me and was looking to meet other men.

“I loved Emma and felt totally devastated and humiliated about what she had done to me.”

In a victim impact statement, Mrs Forrester’s sister Liza Rothery said the murder had had a “devastating” impact on her and parents Frances and Robert.

Miss Rothery added: “What on earth could Emma have done to result in such a brutal, callous attack on a defenceless woman?”
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7676285.stm

Published: 2008/10/17 14:36:44 GMT

Congratulations Mark Zuckerberg: You’ve now brought Facebook to the levels seen on MySpace.

Nine Inch Nails – The Beginning Of The End

Down on your knees, you’ll be left behind
Down on your knees,
This is the beginning
You’ll be left behind.
Watch what you think, they can read your mind
This is the beginning.
This is the beginning
Watch what you think,
I got my mark, see it in my eyes
They can read your mind.
This is the beginning
This is the beginning.
My reflection I don’t recognize
I got my mob scene in my eyes
This is the beginning
This is the beginning.

Well, my reflection I don’t recognize
We think we climb so high
This is the beginning
All up the backs we’ve condemned

Facing our consequence
We think we’ve come so high
This is the beginning of the end
Above all the backs we’ve come down

We face no consequence
You wait your turn, you’ll be last in line
This is the beginning of the end
This is the beginning

Get out the way, ’cause I’m getting mine
You wait your turn,
This is the beginning
you’ll be last in line
God helps the ones that can help themselves
This is the beginning
This is the beginning
Get out the way,
May be too late as far as I can tell
Cause I’m getting mine.
This is the beginning
This is the beginning

There are someones that can help themselves.
We think we’ve come so far
This is the beginning.
On all our lies we depend
May be too late, as far as I can tell.
Facing our consequence
This is the beginning.
This is the beginning of the end

We think we’ve come so far,
On all our lies been taken.
They say no consequence.
This is the beginning of the end.