Une Bloguese engagée – One blog that has touched me sincerely

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighting between Syrian insurgents and government forces in Aleppo left one of the Middle East’s most storied mosques severely damaged on Wednesday, its soaring minaret toppled by explosives. Each side accused the other of responsibility for the destruction at the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo’s walled ancient city, a Unesco World Heritage site.

Anyone who has been in a relationship knows that even if you tell someone the truth, how you tell it could  have major ramifications. What we choose to leave out what we choose to say can many times reveal things about how we actually feel about things. This is the reason why deconstruction was so earth shattering when I got into Derrida. Actually I cut class to read Derrida  that how serious it was.

Why am I writing this

The reason I bring this up is the news. The news is  a product; 95% of the news companies and outlets are owned by 5 major companies. As we have seen with the bombings in Boston and with drumming of war supports the media plays a large role in shaping w2hat we imagine to be true.  People are reduced to shockingly incomplete stereotypes  and while the truth of certain events are told they are told in such a way as to bias the listener to accept certain conclusion that they might not so readily accept.

I have found in my life that travelings outside of my comfort zone and talking to people who I normally don’t get the opportunity have totally changed my outlook on life. The internet for me allows me to interact with people I would not have had the chance to.  One interaction that has touched me sincerely has been reading the blog of LevantWoman.

Levant Woman

To cut to the chase she is a blogger from Syria. The situation in Syria has really  been heart breaking to read, there are real human beings like you or eye suffering every day and yet nothing seems to be happening  to help the situation along. I don’t know what to believe when I read the newspapers or I hear the different political analyses. But I know the suffering is real. Many of us complain about our jobs, about our spouses and about a seemingly endless number of things, which is expected we are human beings but I wonder about how conscious we are  of the suffering of another.

We like to think that we are discrete nations in this world, we like to quickly pass judgement and find someone to blame. If something has happened somewhere else beyond our borders its not our problem although history shows us again and again that what affects one of us affects all of us. What is happening in Syria is affecting or will affect all of us. How it will affect us remains to seen. But there are other stories more important now that get the magazines and newspapers sold.  Syria is not at the front of our minds

Read this

I have taken this from the about page of LevantWoman

Once up on a time in a kingdom fa.. Oh sorry not in a kingdom , in some kind of republic or an ex-republic there lived a princes.. oh sorry just a normal girl like any one you may ever knew ..

She had few things to love, her beloved one , friends, her sisters, some oil paintings, and her voice since she used to sing every time she was nervous or unhappy. Those little things were all she got and she really was happy to get all she ever wanted. Now that everything has changed .. she lost her beloved one in the war, she doesn’t sing anymore or have any passion to draw again. This is a try .. a last try for her to survive the war

I invite everyone to read her latest post:  Im Syrian, I got used to it . I really felt that I needed to read this post when I read it after class tonight. Habibi (That is the only thing I remember from the brief study of Arabic I did a while back) responded to my post: MrMary On Blogging: What Would You Do if Your Blog Got Famous ? and said:

if the blog got famous then I’ll have a bigger motivation to go on.. I’ll write about things that no camera will see.. I will start a series of stories from the war ..When will I stop..maybe when the war is over

I really do hope her blog gets famous, I hope she continues to write and gives us a window into something real and I hope maybe one day I can visit Syria one day see the tomb of Ibn arabi  and talk with some stranger about Wahdjat al Wujud, maybe I’ll play the daf a bit. Maybe hear a reading of Adonis, see the traces of a culture that goes as far back as 2000 BCE

that’s it

Dave

Once up on a time in a kingdom fa.. Oh sorry not in a kingdom , in some kind of republic or an ex-republic there lived a princes.. oh sorry just a normal girl like any one you may ever knew ..

She had few things to love, her beloved one , friends, her sisters, some oil paintings, and her voice since she used to sing every time she was nervous or unhappy. Those little things were all she got and she really was happy to get all she ever wanted.

Now that everything has changed .. she lost her beloved one in the war, she doesn’t sing anymore or have any passion to draw again.

This is a try .. a last try for her to survive the war

MrMary’s Reflective Thoughts on the coming Election

My Voting Registration thingie

I am an American by birth, but still feel like an outsider to the general happenings of the country. While I always pay attention to Elections this elections I decided to actually vote for the first time and it has been an interesting experience, and I thought I would share my observations with you about the election. In doing so it is my hope more importantly to shed light on the mindset of my fellow American. I have always felt from my interactions with people that when Americans go to the polls to vote the whole world waits in anticipation and I would like in this post and in other posts to explore why that is so.

The Machine Winds Down

Finally this week Tuesday the election will be over and the infernal machine will go fade from sight to reside just beyond the periphery of sight wielding its influence in the most clandestine of ways. It has been apparent to me that elections bring out the worst in Americans. As we move closer and closer to the dramatic conclusion I wonder how will we as a nation interact with each other after the election is over. I have observed over the course of the election a few interesting behaviors both virtually through social media and in person.

I myself do not consider myself part of any party, I rather vote on which party’s agenda matches my own philosophy on a variety of issue  so I feel no animosity if someone votes for a party different than the one I will vote for. But if you look at Facebook activity that as I learned is not the case with everyone. As the election campaigns progressed I decided to post interesting articles I found on the election on my personal Facebook page. In doing that I witness a few things:

People spend a considerable energy to insult other people (friends) who don’t agree with them.

It is hard to discern that the people who have access to your thoughts and postings are actually your friends from the comments. The comments left on my page were very I found disrespectful because they call into question not only my ability to gather process and comprehend information but also my self-identity. Here are three type of comments I have either received or saw on my friends  Facebook timeline.

Informing Condescending Comments – You obviously don’t have access to or cannot use your intelligence enough to acquire the correct information. Everyone else but me and the people who believe what I believe in is an idiot. It these “idiots” that eventually will cripple  America due to their lack of information. I have taken it upon myself to find articles that advocate the opposite viewpoint.

Deconstructing Self-Identity Comments – You vote this way because you are ( black, white, Hispanic, women, gay, old, had this former occupation, follow this religion, are an immigrant). Like a savage you use only your basal emotions to guide you. You are not enlightened enough to gather succinct information, then form a hypothesis , and subsequently and objectively corroborate that hypothesis with more facts.

Accusatory Comment - Clearly if you don’t believe what I believe to be true you are anti-American and don’t care about this nation. You just care about yourself, and if you don’t get your way you will complain and just do anything you can to block progress.

Not a Culture of Discourse

It became clear to me that we are not a culture of discourse or debate. What I mean is that whenever to people of opposing opinions come together to discuss things they do not do so to learn anything from each other. The purpose of debate and discourse is the selling of an ideology. The fact that fact-checking played such a visible role in this election is testament to this fact. The public sphere is not a place for the sharing of ideas or learning, and I wonder if in America it was every the case from colonial times to present day. The essence of American politics has always been to divide, disenfranchise and exploit.

The vision that the Founding Fathers had for America didn’t include Black, Hispanics, Asian, Native Americans or women who shared equal footing with their male counterparts. The signer of the Declaration  of Independence were part of the landed aristocracy of the Southern Colonies or the mercantilistic based Aristocracy of the Northern colonies. They set the precedence that the dictates of the legal institutions were not the dictates of the social sphere: all men on paper are created equally but socially that’s not the case. Legally one has the right to free speech and protest but in actuality doing so can put one in a world of hurt or in the worst case scenario cost one their life.

For me without education the democratic process cannot work and I would like to share with you two quotes that for me sum up why:

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” — Voltaire

 ”Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance” 

My Distrust 

Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called “realism.” To be “realistic” in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.

Howard Zinn

I have a great distrust of government and I feel that so much of political rhetoric is divorced from History. Each political statement is crafted for it to be a self-autonomous sound byte. It not connect  to the past and to history. Even in school in America when we are taught american history it tends to be divided up in presidencies; we hear about Lincoln’s presidency and it’s problems, we read about Andrew Jackson’s presidency and its problems. We are never taught a American history that depicts america as one country , one jig-saw puzzle piece in a vast living tapestry. American history stands alone and everything else is tangential and there is a sort of hubris there that is evident in our foreign policy which has been described as having nothing to do with democracy.

I truly believe that if American History was taught in a way inclusive of the history of the many immigrant groups that emigrated to her teaming shores things would be a bit different. We would be less reluctant to go to war I feel. We would care more about the people and less about the ideology. An educated populace is a catalyst for great change and is a buffer to the megalomanic  desires of the select few with power.  Without education how effectively can we notice the deliberate removal of nuance? How effectively can we  be made to believe in absurdities?

Momentary Conclusion

This was meant only to be a brief intro into a series of observations. Basically this election is an experiment for me. I really don’t feel voting is an effective means for change really because voting is seen and depicted as being separate from action.  The changes brought by  the Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Gay Right’s, Immigrant Right’s Movement were not brought by voting alone, some people had to die first. Voting I feel is a legal and political statement but not an indication of the social reality. I think that disconnect allows us to be exploited and cajoled as a nation.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. – Howard Zinn

It is clear from the election that the race, Women’s Rights, Immigrant Rights, and gay Rights are still an issue; that while we operate a mindset that is stuck in the past and that is always scary to me. More thoughts later

MrMary

 

Dynamite: Putting 2 Howard Zinn Quotes & an eCard from Le Clown together (1)

Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road.

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I was reading some Howard Zinn today and while doing so I remembered a magnificent eCard from LeClown. So here it is below your saturday Afternoon LeClown Sammich. Coincidentally the LeClown Sammich is a sexual act I read about while I was a passenger on a steam train to Cleveland. Anyways I thought what better way to make a salient point than by making the eCard and by extension Le Clown the figurative meat between two buns ( emphasis on the uhnsz!!!)

It will be an orgiastic feast for your mind. I know that when I am the meat between two buns my knees hurt after a while and my predilection for grabbing pony tails manifests itself but that’s beside the point.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Howard Zinn

eCard from LeClown

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one’s country, one’s fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles

We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had — the individual’s right to oppose both flag and country when he believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it, all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. We grow up in a controlled society, where we are told that when one person kills another person, that is murder, but when the government kills a hundred thousand, that is patriotism.

Yeah… that’s it…

I hope you enjoyed that salient reflection, I know I did. Excuse me while my mind smokes a cigarette and makes a mental note not to call the next day

-MrMary

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Illogical Thoughts that make perfect sense

When I was in elementary school, I had to stand and put my right hand over my heart and say the pledge of allegiance  to the Flag and then we would sing this song:

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

Ok granted some things have changed  through strip mining and deforestation we have a very different country. It was late night and out of no where I started singing this song and I realized two things:

1. I have no idea who the fuck Lena Durham is or why she is mentioned?
2. If we had a scale of Americaness with 1 being the least and 10 being the most, the Founding Fathers would be a 0 i.e completely unamerican

Woah woah…..

How can the founding fathers be the most unamerican Americans in History?

First Point: Iced Tea

First before 1776 they were British colonists.  You cannot really loose decades of Britishness by signing a mother fucking paper no matter what you attest and agree too. Britain is the enemy and still the enemy that why they continue to flee from dental care to scare us with the many shades of yellow and brown smiles. Should I remind you that these dudes were drinking Tea! it wasn’t the Boston Iced Tea party. If it was they wouldn’t have dressed up as Indians to do it, they would have dressed up as members of the Nestle or Lipton family.

Second Point: Manifest Destiny

This painting (circa 1872) by John Gast called American Progress, is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a school book. The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation. Native Americans and animals flee into darkness.

American didn’t become America until it reached from Sea to Shining sea. Until Manifest destiny was actualize and we expanded from the pacific to the Atlantic we were national building and thus not a fully formed nation. The Founding Fathers didn’t come up with the idea of manifest destiny it was a 19th century idea used to justify the Mexican American War. We reached the Pacific in 1846. Two years before the end of the Mexican American war why is this important? I turn to the war hero Ulysses S Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant was a remarkably close observer of the war. In the 1880s he wrote that the war was unjust, accepting the theory that it was designed to gain land open to slavery. He wrote in his memoirs about the war against Mexico: “I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day, regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.”

Grant as well as many others felt the Mexican American war in many ways brought about the  Civil War.

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

The American civil war is considered among the bloodiest civil war in the worlds history. So for me America is only American after the nation emerges from the two labia of the Mexican-American war and the American Civil war anything before that is not completely American. Would you call half bake cake batter cake? No not at all

Point 3 Founding Fathers were Terrorist

The organized in secret and protested what they felt was an exploitative practice of taxation without representation. According to Bill O Reilly Fox News correspondent that is enough to qualify for terrorism.

“But what I’m trying to say is not just about me — this Occupy Wall Street movement is now very coordinated and they are terrorists,” O’Reilly said. “They are trying to create trouble, that’s what terrorists do.”

Official Defintion of a terrorist:

“[An] act of terrorism, means any activity that

(A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; and

(B) appears to be intended

(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or

(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping.”

Founding Fathers were involved in violent acts dangerous to human life, what they did was considered a criminal violation. They tried to influence the British Governments Policy by coercion, and definitely assassination .

I mean  we use the same parameters to define terrorist acts in other countries we arent part of like for instance look at this headline:

Threat of terrorism remains in Punjab: Chidambaram

Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the threat of terrorism remains in Punjab but expressed confidence about the government’s ability to tackle any attempt to thwart peace in the border state.

I rest my case

The founding fathers of our great nation are the most American of Americans during a political election year But if we look at them through the lenses of America today they were unAmerican, freedom hating, terrorists that ruthlessly oppressed minority factions in their country without having to answer for crimes in an international court of law.

I didnt mention how the war of independence was funding by other nations like France, Netherlands and Spain – multinational; terrorist cells laundering money to plan attack on a ruling power of what is an ideological threat to their freedom and way of life?

MrMary’s
Shit that is illogical but makes sense

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This Fourth of July Im Declaring War

Try this, Type in War on in Google and click enter. You may not be able to handle what it is you see.  I never thought America was a war like country, I mean the Stallone and Chuck Norris movies always showed one guy, on a singular missions destroying the Vietnamese and the Russians. Turn out we are fighting imaginary wars as well:

War on Poverty
War on Drugs
War on Terror
War on Women
War on Christmas
War on Guns
War on Cancer
War on Voting
War on War
War on Iran
War on Secrecy
War on Science
War on Democracy
War on Marijuana
War on Junk

I want to declare war on something  too. I am my Generations Greatest Patriot so I should formally declare war on something. But what, my first inclination is to declare war on women with no asses that chose to wear thongs. Don’t get me wrong, The having no ass wont deter me from consensual randomly scheduled man-meat feedings. personally I feel that you should be happy with whatever you got. However I am not a fan of waste,  I dont feel midgets should buy stuff from Shaq’s garage sale, anyways I digress. How does one declare war ? How does one select what is worthy of an all out attack?  I know teh president has “baseball cards”:

A stunning report in the New York Times depicted President Obama poring over the equivalent of terrorist baseball cards, deciding who on a “kill list” would be targeted for elimination by drone attack. The revelations—as well as those in Daniel Klaidman’s recent book—sparked public outrage and calls for congressional inquiry.

Personally I’ve never liked baseball that much let alone the baseball cards and the stale stick of gum, if I wanted something dry and stale to chew one I would visit the afore-mentioned no-ass thong wearing girl [The breeze that goes through there must dry that shit up - actually lemme quit horsing around, it definitely does]

Learning From the Best

When I am in times of trouble, and am trying to figure stuff out I often turn to religion. In this case my personal spiritual adviser former street pimp, voted pimp of the year 13 years in a row, turned reverend His Holiness The Archbishop Don Magic Juan. But while pimping and going to war have a lot in common:

1. Generally someone is always getting fucked in war, but more importantly they are  not getting kissed during .
2. You always have to pay extra when you shoot your load too quickly
3. They are both “Not Easy”
4. Reefer usage and STD’s are intrinsic to both.

I felt that the Archbishop  wasn’t the right person to turn to for guidance. I was going to have to make some bullshit up as i went along because well I am not wearing any pants and have drank a lot.So I turned to language.

Looking at the wars listed I see something common, the fact that nouns or more important sovereign insitutions are whom the wars are being waged against. These are not wars against people directly, but they are wars on ambigious vague things, like a war on war or a war on terror. So my first  indication is that my war should be against something that is sort of ambiguous or not necessary clear. Also  The war should do nothing to address roots causes. The war against drugs shouldnt address why people take drugs recreational , just criminalize taking drugs.

Classifying War

There are 3 types of wars you will read about in the new today which are of course disconnected to the wars beign fought out in countries we the public know little about:

1. War against a condition – Being a women means you are a women affected by the condition of having a vagina same can be said for the war on poverty. Poverty is a condition as is being Iranian. I need to criminalize things that cant be changed like skin color, liking Everyone Loves Raymond, nationality, wanting to eat at the all you can dick buffet if you are gay for instance,  thinking Noomi Rapace did a good job in Prometheus, having to left feet
2. War against inanimate things – War on Guns, War on Sporks that come with public school lunches., war on drugs the thinking here is to remove the thing but not deal with the behaviors that govern how they are used.
3. War against Actions – War against voting, war against littering,  War against wearing clothes, War against drinking sugary beverages.  Very similar to the war on inaminate things in that the reality that governs acceptability and proper usage is never discussed.

I myself am a syncretist, like Wilt Chamberlain I like a little of everything. So I am going to go for an ambiguous war on an action involving and inanimate thing caused by a condition I was born with but can do nothing about.

This July 4th

I want All Hands on Deck !!!!

MrMary Declares War on Insomniac Masturbating to Telemundo  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It’s my person war against an act (self-loving) caused by a condition (having a penis) that uses a seemingly innocuous tool (television shows on Telemundo). I have purposefully not discussed the reason behind the act or the context defining the social norms about where/how and why  the inanimate object is used but the title is not ambiguous enough.

Official Name

War on Intimacy

(Perfect- not adjectives in that only two noun and a preposition)

Stay tuned for the Official Image

A Violent Act we all Do

I have always felt that violent acts doesn’t always have to be a right hook to the body or involve some sort of physical contact. If you have been in a bad relationship you know that you can be assault verbally. Words can be a vehicle for violence. But for this violent act we all do is even more subtle.

You meet someone the conversation starts  and somewhere in that conversation you say, I am Christian, or I am an Atheist or a Republican, Democrat or whatever other label you feel accurately defines you and right there, you have committed a violent act. To me what all violent acts share is a callous separation between the recipient and the aggressor.  There is a big difference between a dialogue where people agree to disagree or cannot reach a conclusion and a violent act perpetrated. One affirms the differences between us, the other reduces someone to a thing a commodity.

Let me give you an example someone I know said this on Facebook today:

Interesting article that the reason most young people tend democrat is that they came of age during Clinton and a bad bush presidency. My political awakening was the republication revolution of 94. From then on, it has been the GOP.

In the US we tend to ignore what common sense dictates, to vote and act along ideological lines.  Some Christians feel abortion is wrong for everyone whether they follow the same ideology or not and they vote for whatever party says the same thing they feel. Some of these people feel life is so sacred they blow up clinics with people in them. On many issues this particular person follows what the party says to follow, not because its right or wrong, but because the party he feels represents him. If his party is for the bombing  of a foreign sovereign country because they represent some threat to us, then they deserve everything that happens to them because you don’t mess with America!

What comes with it

There is a culture that comes with every ideology and each of these cultures are in a fight for supremacy, are in a fight to exist in time to be historically relevant. To be a Democrat is not to be republican, and sometimes for some people it means to hate people who are Republicans. To be an Athiest for some is to spend an amount of time every day ridiculing everyone who believes in God, and religion.  There is seriously an us versus them mentality that rules over so much of human activity.

I don’t think we can come together and solve issues as human beings.  There is a serious responsible we all share as human beings to each other I ask myself is it right to buy stuff made from child labor or to get my lady diamond jewelry from horrible exploitative diamond mines. These to me are questions that exist beyond party ideology. If fracking is destroying lives and towns, do we need to have politicians tell us what to believe.

I think we don’t do anything that affirms our humanity together in a serious way. We tend to  focus on what we ideologically feel represents us. It is like a violent puppet show with real world consequences.  To ignore the poverty in our own country, to ignore the civilians being killed by  drones,  is an act of violence I feel. To say I am this or that is an act of violence because in many cases it sows the seeds for exploitation. Obviously not everyone nourishes it and grows it into a giant tree. Some people are quite open minded and magnanimous.

Just some thoughts, daydreaming

Dreaming of an Idyllic utopia

MrMary

Hodgepodge: Big Brother, Fat Brother, Golf Ball Sized drones, Happy Feet, CNN and German Girls

The best way to combat government surveillance is to devalue personal freedom and acts of protest which in turn  provides the perfect environment, for irresponsible amounts of masturbation.  I just solved a lot of problems for you all well at least in America. Why do I mention this ?

Well on Jan 23, 2012 Pete Cashmore in a piece for CNN entitled “Why 2012, despite privacy fears, isn’t like Orwell’s 1984” said that:

Big brother is definitely watching too bad it’s not his weight of his ponderous absurdity

The online world is indeed allowing our every move to be tracked, while at the same time providing a counterweight to the emergence of Big Brother.

This statement confirms that Big Brother is growing,  right now I imagine he is semi-chubb. He says that  many of the online site where one can track how many steps one has taken, how deep one can sit when one doesn’t use a bike seat and jsut rides the poll, etc… that ” Self-improvement becomes easier when you’re able to track your own activities. Increasingly, consumers are tracking their every move and posting this data online.“ Unlike in Orwell’s dystopian world, however, people today are making a conscious choice to do so.

While people are making a conscious effort to do so, the government can get access to this data if it wants.  The government does what it wants without any accountability. I mean why would they let someone make Happy Feet 2.  He further hammers the point like I did on that video of me the government has on a diplomatic mission with a sexy Fraulein from Leipzig.

The difference between this reality and Orwell’s vision — outlined in his chilling 1949 novel — is the issue of control: While his Thought Police tracked you without permission, some consumers are now comfortable with sharing their every move online.

Well we are in a constant war against terror and can disrespect the sovereignty of nation to kill people who the American public is totally due to a serious lack of education and care  unaware of and uneducated about. While legally one has the right to protest if one chooses too one has the right to ignore the reality of the police batons and the subsequent free facial reconstructive surgery.

The Question I would like answered is why are people so open about sharing their private details. It is one thing to discuss the behaviors we see exhibited. Its another thing to talking about the context, the environment that helped to precipitate those behaviors. My parents generation would never  do such a  thing. They have a different set of values and depiction of how one’s private details should be managed (it seems only in therapy).

Conclusions and an Unveiling

In conclusion the author of the aforementioned article says:

The world of 2012 is both reminiscent of Orwell’s vision and radically at odds with it. Connected lifestyles are creating a world in which sharing your activities may become the norm, albeit through choice and not coercion. And yet this connected society is also empowering people in new ways, providing a counterweight to big business and big government.

While Orwell correctly predicted that technological advances would let authorities track our lives, he failed to predict the inverse: That we would use these new technologies to keep an eye on them, too

So now I give you this :

U.S. government to use ‘drones the size of GOLF BALLS
to spy on AMERICAN citizens

The Golden Snitch from Harry Potter will be all up in ya shit

The Obama administration has been widely criticized for its increased reliance on drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but according to published reports, a plan is now in the works to harness tiny drones to spy on U.S. citizens.

A 30-page memorandum issued by President Barack Obama’s Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley on April 23 has stated that the drones, some as small as golf balls, may be used domestically to ‘collect information about U.S. persons.’

Andrew Napolitano, former New Jersey judge and senior judicial analyst at Fox News, wrote in his Washington Times opinion column this week that if the military personnel spot something of interest from a drone, they may apply to a military judge or ‘military commander’ for permission to conduct a physical search of the private property.

The memo cited by Napolitano goes on to say that any ‘incidentally acquired information’ can be retained or turned over to local law enforcement, which raises the question of the constitutionality of launching a drone program stateside, and whether it violates people’s right to privacy.

Police departments in Texas, Florida and Minnesota have already expressed interest in the technology’s potential to detect fugitives on rooftops or to track them at night by using the robotic aircraft’s heat-seeking cameras.

Let’s Use Social Media to Stop this

Any ideas?

I can see NYC using these golf ball sized drones to police the poorer neighborhood so the police can only come in after the building to pick up the bodies. This cna be used as well to enforce the  ban on sugary drinks and a host of other peaceful stuff. No not like 1984 at all

Sorry the idea of privacy has been coming up a lot, guess its sort of a big thing to me since I have been having a lot of girls over in my imagination.

MrMary

Don’t say the word Vagina In Michigan

The Facts

During a heated debate on the floor of the Michigan state House, Rep. Lisa Brown made an impassioned speech against a bill that seeks to put new regulations on abortion providers and ban all abortions after 20 weeks.

Brown, a Democrat, argued that her Jewish faith allowed for therapeutic abortions when the mother’s life is in danger without regard to length of pregnancy.

“I have not asked you to adopt and adhere to my religious beliefs. Why are you asking me to adopt yours?” she said. But what came next is what got her in trouble: “And finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no.’”

What a Fucking Pussy

Two Republicans had this to say:

What she said was offensive,” said Rep. Mike Callton, R-Nashville. ‘It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company.’

“Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas, R-Midland, determined Brown’s comments violated the decorum of the House, said Ari Adler, spokesman for the Republican majority.”

These guys are a bunch of fucking pussies. C’mon now in anatomy and physiology , in all biology classes the word vagina is  practically  an non-offensive term. If she used the term beef curtains then maybe it would be offensive, or sweaty-box as in: “Im flattered you care so much about my sweaty box but No! mean NO!!!.” I took a moment to compile the following list a I felt it would be germane to our discussion. Which word  should she have used ? Whats you favorite word for ‘vagina’.

Maybe She Should have used the Following Words

Seems they come wrapped with Directions Now !

 axe wound – badly wrapped kebab – bald man in a boat – bearded clam – bearded oyster – beaver – beefcurtain – beef curtain – box – bread – buju – camel’s foot – camel toe – chach – cha cha – cherry – chocha – cho-cho – chonch – cooch – coochie – cookie – coosie – cooter – cuder – cunny – cunt – cunt punt – fish taco – flange – fuck hole – fur burger – fur pie – gap – gash – growler – hair burger – hair pie – ham flap – ham wallet – hatchet wound – hoo-hoo – hot pocket – kitty – kooch – kuder – lip – lunchmeat – man in the boat – man in the boat – meat curtains – meat flap – meat wallet – minge – moose knuckle – muff – muffin – na-na – nappy dugout – neden – nookie – open wound – pink – pink canoe – pink sausage wallet – pink taco – pink velvet sausage wallet – piss flaps – poon – poonaner – poonani – poontang – poon tang pie – pootang – poo tang – pooter – pootie tang – promised land, the – punani – punanni – puss – pussy – putang – pu-tang – quivering mound of love pudding – roast beef – roast beef curtains – slit – smush mitten – snatch – soggy box – tampon tunnel – tang – tunnel of love – twat – vadge – vag – vajayjay – vertical smile – whispering eye

FurBurgers of the World Unite!!!!!!!!!!

The War on Women

Generally as you know  I don’t vote and I don’t like either party. Current to me someone who doesn’t care or doesn’t vote, republicans seem to come off as slimy rich bastards who like to  use their wealth to encapsulated them from the realities of the struggles of other people who live in the same country they do.  They seem to be anti anything that can help foster freedom education, the betterment of daily life really. I am talking social appearance here. Many have said that the GOP have started a war on women, meaning they have moved to endorse legislation that is quite unfair to the meat wallet sector of our population. I got the follow statistics from MoveON.org

1. Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t yet. Shocker.
2. A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain “victims.”
3. In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that couldmake it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4. Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids. 
5.  In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life. 
6. Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said.Women should really be home with the kids, not out working. 
7. And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8. Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9. Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10. And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can’t make this stuff up).

Ms Brown  Barred From Speaking

House Republican leadership did not allow Brown to speak on a bill about the retirement of school employees. They were afraid she would mention “fish taco” and start a riot amongst the retired lunch-ladies and lunch-men. She wasnt the only women silenced though Rep. Barb Byrum was also not allowed to speak on the floor.

“Byrum, D-Onondaga, caused a disturbance on the House floor Wednesday when she wasn’t allowed to introduce an amendment to the abortion regulations bill banning men from getting a vasectomy unless the sterilization procedure was necessary to save a man’s life,” 

I don’t get why in this day and age this is an issue, I mean what a women chooses to do with her body. I also don’t understand why using the word vagina in the Context Ms. Brown did was a bad thing or why she was kept from speaking out  a retirement bill. I think that dudes that have trouble saying vagina don’t really like it and are playing for the opposite team.  There is nothing wrong with playing for the other team but the fact is that no one likes a double agent with a hidden nefarious agenda.

Case in Point:

Republican Politician Naked, Bending Over on Gay Sex Site

and who can forget….

Mark Foley

The Crime: Sending sexually laced, grammatically challenged instant messages and e-mails to teenaged boys in the Congressional page program for more than 10 years.

The Hypocrisy: Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. One of the foremost opponents of child pornography in the Senate.

Ted Haggard

The Crime: Paying male prostitutes for sex and snorting crystal meth.

The Hypocrisy: A powerful force in the evangelical movement, Haggard participated in weekly meetings with President George Bush and top advisors where he gave spiritual advice. He taught that homosexuality was an abomination and actively lobbied against gay rights.

The Quote: “I did not have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver.”

Larry Craig

U.S. Senator
Senate Liason for Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign

The Crime: Soliciting sex from an undercover cop in an airport bathroom

The Hypocrisy: Craig twice voted against adding the words “sexual orientation” to the federal hate crimes law. Craig also voted to give states the right to refuse to recognize gay marriage–a right they already had, but the Senator wanted to really, really prove he didn’t like gay people.

The Quote: “I am not gay, I don’t do these kinds of things.”

Bob Allen

Member of the Florida House of Representatives
Florida Chairman of John McCain’s Presidential Campaign
(July 11, 2007)

The Crime: Offering an undercover cop $20 to allow Allen to blow him in a men’s room in a public park. After being arrested, Allen tried to explain that he only offered to blow the cop because the cop was a “burly black man” and he “didn’t want to become a statistic.”

The Hypocrisy: Allen was one of 21 Florida legislators to sign Gov. Jeb Bush’s friend-of-the-court brief supporting the state’s ban on gays adopting children, and he co-sponsored an unsuccessful bill that would have enhanced penalties for “offenses involving unnatural and lascivious acts” such as indecent exposure.

The Quote: “I certainly wasn’t there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn’t there to exchange money for it.”

Glenn Murphy Jr.

National Chairman of the Young Republicans
Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party
(July 28, 2007)

The Crime: Murphy got a fellow Young Republican drunk and then spent the night at his house. The other young man woke up in the middle of the night to find Murphy giving him mouth-to-penis resuscitation. After this incident, a 1998 sexual battery report came to light in which Murphy was alleged to have done the exact same thing.

The Hypocrisy: Murphy was a well-paid political consultant for Republican candidates and often advised them to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to paint their opponents as out of touch with traditional values.

The Quote: “I was in the Sound of Music in High School…don’t ask” (from his now-defunct Myspace page.)

Immigrants hating Immigrants and a Cool way to Keep Prisons Filled (1)

You can hate me now.. but I won’t stop now.. Cause I can’t stop now..

As an American I have noticed that for a nation of immigrants we on a whole really hate immigrants. I’ve tried to understand why being first generation here in America. There are some things though I have noticed though specifically nowadays we dislike certain types of immigrants. On the one hand poor immigrants take American job picking produces working in horrible deplorable factory conditions. A lot of industries depend on this steady pool of unskilled and unlettered people. Case and point fields of rotting produce with no one to pick them, after harsher new anti-immigration laws in Alabama. However other immigrants who come to this country from Europe with formidable skills  according to the rhetoric make serious contribution to the America Way of life.

Why The Hate

I  believe we hate immigrants because in part many of our families when they came over here got the ill treatment newer immigrants are getting now. It’s like children who were verbally and physically exposed to abuse are much more likely to be so to their own kids. If you look at the history of immigration here almost every group got the ill treatment when they arrived.

But I would like to point out that immigrant aren’t a homogeneous group of people. I may be wrong but an immigrant from Sweden is looked upon socially different than an immigrant from a sub-Saharan African country, than one from Mexico.

ALL IMMIGRANTS AREN’T CREATED EQUAL

  

I dont really believe in all this melting pot nonsense. If America were truly a Meritocracy then I would say yeah a Sub-Saharan, latin American and Northern European if they each came to this country penniless and worked hard could strike it big, but I don’t believe that not for a second. Well I have always felt that there is a direct correlation between our foreign policy and immigration. Like for instance during the Cold War We gave a lot of weapons/money to certain groups of people to help in the fight against Communism, yet of course this had disastrous effects for the population of these countries. I would also go as far to say that we helped install some puppet governments, toppled some other government. Such behaviors in the long run displaces hordes of people, some of which believe the ideology expoused in our foreign policy rhetoric.

With that Said

Ok I have gotten all the serious stuff out of the way, now it’s time for some silly ideas about cool ways to use immigrants to keep prisons filled Stay tuned for part 2

An Old Lady w/Gout Feels me Up makes America Better

You’ve been using all those bullshit artificial sweeteners out there that  you’ve forgotten the taste of real honey
- MrMuthaFuckinMary 

I opened the door for an old lady at Dunkin Donuts today with the goal of  getting an giant sized  ice caramel latte – Yeah it’s part of my pre-sex ritual.  She says thank you and she rubs my right forearm, I didn’t think anything of it at the time.  I figure she is very physical in her “Thank You’s“.

We start talking , and she is very pleasant. The conversation steers towards the more the new promotional Southwest Burrito with bits of steak. She tells me that she would love to try it but she has gout – the disease of kings of those who can afford to indulge in the all meat diet, sorta like  Vegas Prostitutes but different. (What happens in Vegas, comes up in the free clinic)

 I get my drink before her order and sit down for a second, I see her coming and i move a wayward chair to help her out. She tell me how sweet I am and in a very awkward ways feels up my arm and grabs and squeezes my chest. I’ve been in catholic school for 14 years, I made that move and the stop short walking in double file on down the stairs my own. I don’t say anything , jsut smile and continue on my way, ya know why ?

BECAUSE I MADE AMERICA BETTER

While the rest of America is sending their older parents and grandparents out to some farm/pasture or old folks home to be mistreated before they die, I offer myself to the old women of this great nation to be felt up for being a Good Samaritan. I would like to through some women my age  then that would be doing my manly duty which in cases of long weekends trumps my national one. Happy old ladies, means more cookies for other family members, it means more salamis getting send to the boys in the Army, or more b-day cards with dollars in it and candies wrapped in napkins.

There is talk of robots replacing whores  in Amsterdam but seriously who would want that ? Have we forgotten the taste of real honey? We kill people with drones from far away but what  about the 3 things every warrior knows is best in life:

1. To crush your enemies 

2. See them driven before you 

3. and to hear the lamentation of their women!

We need to go back to a time where we weren’t afraid to get out hands dirty and get right into the thick of things, of course I lead by example  and don’t bone robots, those some of the girls I have been have been cold callous and unresponsive to human contact.

Can Ya Dig It ?!?!?!

MrMary

The Problem w/being America’s Greatest Patriot: The Real Gun Show (2)

Its not doubt that the gaming technology  and the culture that comes along with it has changed forever the face of warfare with video games being used to train military personnel and  joy stick operated drone strikes. But this influenced hasn’t just stopped at war, there are a lot of games that hint at the possibility of boning other hot looking aliens, and other space faring humans-races (Mass Effect Game series for instance). This gaming sub-culture has been a voice for the rapacious libido of that segment of our species that can  play video games. – did you know that about 50% of the earth’s population have never received a phone call or called anyone? Look at the follow article

Why the world might need robotic prostitutes

Sex with a machine might not be so bad, say researchers, especially as an alternative to human trafficking and the resulting spread of sexually transmitted infections

A new scientific paper suggests that by 2050, many bordellos and brothels will have replaced human prostitutes with lifelike robots. The research, published in the journalFutures, imagines a mechanized sex industry that the study’s authors believe is not only possible, butpreferable. 

 

Why Even bring up this idea of robot ho-bags, what is the connection with drone strikes, well my dear there was a recent drone strike in the Phillippines to be specific let me  Deadly Drone Strike on Muslims in the Southern Philippines. Turns out there is MILF party there (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) and from my reading they are supposedly the bad guys. Once I read about teh MILF party and dropping bombs, tactical strikes, I thought back to this MILF I knew who despite having a kid was still quite hott.  I would have had not problem dropping a few…. well that’s not the point.

Accountability and Drone Strikes

The Philippines was a former ‘possession’ (courtesy of the Spanish American War) of the USA so it is with a little bit of remorse that I the greatest patriot   greeted the news of a drone strike in Philippines.  We still have troops there and plan more drone strikes to kill more muslim terrorists we believe to have links to Al Qaeda or who we assume  hate us for our philistine ways. But the Philippines aside there are some difficult questions to answer and without much wise-acreing I will get into it. The first major question is:

Question 1 

What about the civilians in any who are killed, what about the innocents?  It is in America’s interest to just kill terrorist and not innocents because they sets up a precedence for  the future generation to dislike America and for us to have to go over there and bomb them for such an offense. Check out the movie Princess Bride in particular the character of Inigo Montoya

Luckily President Obama read my mind well half of it because he isn’t as frisk worthy as I am (i.e.  you don’t need as much black crayon to draw him, in a sense, genetically and physically).

the Obama administration defines a militant as any military-age male in the strike zone during a drone attack unless there is specific information posthumously proving them innocent. The logic is, people in an area of known terrorist activity, or found with an al-Qaeda operative is probably up to no good. 

Question 2

Well some of America’s more Christian denizens might ask,  doesn’t Obama get to play God by deciding who lives and who dies? (The president has to OK the drone strike and the target before it happens) To answer that I will first quote the rigorous standards used as stipulated by John Brennen, the Presidents personal Counter Terrorist advisor:

We only authorize a particular operation against a specific individual if we have a high degree of confidence that the individual being targeted is indeed the terrorist we are pursuing,” Brennan said. “This is a very high bar.”

Of course I love statements like that that say much but give nothing in the way of protocol and Standard operating Procedure. For instance Brennen has gone on to say that: “An individual must be deemed by U.S. intelligence to be actively involved in a plot to attack American forces, facilities or other targets….. The intelligence is vetted at high levels, and the decision to fire a missile is made with “extraordinary care and thoughtfulness.” but he hasn’t said how this is done or what criteria is used because as Americans we don’t need to be disrupted from voting for America’s Next Top Idol.  God doesnt deal with confidence levels or bars so that questions is clearly answered.

No need for more Questions

If there are males around a terrorist they must be terrorist too.  So unless drone strikes kill women and children there are no real casualties.  If evidence is found that exonerates a former terrorists they get pardon posthumously. This is all quite rational. Someone has been accused of plotting against the USA and they are a terrorist, people around them by extension are terrorist if they are makes of the same age, they get to be judged without a trial and if evidence is found after they are dead they are exonerated. Water proof system!! But here is what bothers me then as America’s greatest Patriot:

let’s say some crooked bankers plot to steal money from hard working American, they cause the market to crash or some sorta big time scumbag things which causes ripples throughout the world’s economy, they should technically be shot down by drones  as well as all the other males around them  who are of age to work in that industry. What sucks is that there are a couple of places near wall street that I like to hang that by my proximity  would make me a scumbag banker and I would be shot down/ Looking at the DMV and all the public offices by the time the paper work is processed It would make no sense to pardon me or resurrect me from the dead because I doubt a body would even have been found.

But what about the Fast Food companies that knowing sell Americans tainted food ? Do we bomb them? Do we bomb people in McDonald’s  because they males and co-conspirators with penises? As the Greatest Patriot of my Generation I wonder when the process of choosing terrorist is so shadowy and unknown,  how long will it be before drones are used to police people here in our own country. I mean we already started with a former possession?

 

The Link Between Genetically Modified Food and Cannibalism

In a lab I can do some really cool stuff. I can transform bacteria with a gene from Jellyfish and make them glow in the dark like Charlie Sheen  after a crack binge.  I can take genes from one species and express them in another species:

1. In 2006 a pig was engineered to produce omega-3 fatty acids through the expression of a roundworm gene.
2. Researchers have also developed a genetically-modified breed of pigs that are able to absorb plant phosphorus more efficiently, and as a consequence the phosphorus content of their manure is reduced by as much as 60%.
3. Breast Milk Producing Cows: In 2011, Chinese scientist have been breeding cows genetically engineered with genes for human beings to produce milk that would be the same as human breast milk.
4. Goats that produce silk in their milk: A company called biosteel has genetically engineered goats to produce milk with strong spider web like silk proteins in their milk.
5. Pigs that glow in the dark: In 2006 Taiwan scientist used genetic material from a jelly fish and implanted it into pigs embryos. The result was that depicted to the right, pigs that glow bright green in the dark. The pigs whole body including its internal organs glow green. In the daylight, these pigs have a slight tinge of green on their skin, snout and teeth.

The great thing about  Genetically Modified Foods is that no one knows their long term effect on the population and ecosystem. So we could be poisoning ourselves and the ecosystem for a profit without knowing how it will affect things down the road. But there is even a more dangerous  insinuation.

GMO’s ARE INSPIRING PEOPLE
TO EAT OTHER PEOPLE

Soon everything will taste like chicken mostly because there will be a piece of chicken in everything, watermelon, inner city violence,  instant raisin walnut and date oatmeal, malt liquor, the watered down mimosa for the champagne brunch and Joan River’s face to name a few things.

The upside to this for me is that finally also the stigma that all Negros eat is chicken will be done away with. But the down side of everything of tasting like chicken,  is that  genetically modified organism and in turn genetically modified foods, delude us into believing that the reality of one stop shopping is not only real but well without our grasp.  Why pay for side dishes for a meal when your nice plate of dead animal can be part salad and maybe come stuffed with an age cheese that wrapped in a silk cloth both home-grown due to genetic modification? The only problem , the only thorn in the paw is the drug culture here in the USA. Drug warp peoples minds and sense of perception some people on drugs believe that:

1. Having Vitamin C in Kool-Aid makes it healthy to drink
2. The Knicks will win a Championship
3. Kissing hookers on the mouth became stylish after the movie f Pretty Women hit big
4. You really are what you eat

Recently two persons in particular took number 4 serious

Alex Kinyua, 21, a native of Kenya and a student at Morgan State University, admitted using a knife to kill and carve up 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie before eating his organs (brain and heart), the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said last week.

Rudy Eugene chewed the flesh off a homeless man’s face on Memorial Day weekend. Eugene first removed his own clothes and then tore off the trousers of his victim, 65-year-old Ronald Poppo.

THOUGHTS

It happens very  rarely  but I am  at  a loss for words. I couldn’t believe these two reports when I heard them on the news. It made me feel uneasy walking around the city. I mean seriously I wonder what could happen to people that would make them revert to savagery?While I was grappling to come to terms with this I saw everyone making jokes about a zombie apocalypse Which was of course was really mature and I feel a way of sidestepping the issue. I also wondering how is it  people with such tendencies are  walking the streets? 

I thought with this post  I  could find some sort of way to use these two incidents to look at the world around me and try to better understand it. Everything that happens I feel is a door  to learning. In reflecting on things I have come up with many interesting thoughts but ultimately I don’t think the world is and ever was something to understand as much as it is something to experience We’d like to imagine that as time goes one human society moves towards some point, that it is always evolving that the more recent civilization are more advanced than the one before it. I figure we must be the pinnacle of all civilization with our nuclear war heads,  striped toothpaste, reality show, war crimes, and drone strikes. As J Krishnamurthi had said we have progressed from the bullock cart to the Jet Plane but humanity hasn’t changed much in that time. I am still shocked by all of this by the violence in our homes in our society in the world. I’m still surprised how we continue to believe that all is ok and there is not something seriously wrong with our society.