It's not about race.

There were failures all over this hurricane thing, and nobody's going to say there weren't. Things were slow, held back, forgotten, overlooked, mishandled, WHATEVER.

That's because people fucked up. It's not about RACE. It's not even about POVERTY.

It's about people being human, people being focused on other things, people being caught up in their own lives. Maybe it's about the President liking vacation a lot, maybe it's about the President having a full plate. Maybe it's about the fact that when shit hits the fan, people get all flustered, and THAT doesn't help anything.

Maybe it's too soon for blame. Maybe it's not. But it's NOT about race. And it's NOT about poverty. It's about mistakes, it's about chaos, it's about madness. Jesus, let the race card fucking drop.

Does India not have some sort of child abuse agency? Check this article out...



He runs seven hours at a stretch, sometimes as much as 48km (30 miles). On a daily basis.
And Budhia Singh is just three and a half years old.

When Budhia's father died a year ago, his mother, who washes dishes in Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern Indian state of Orissa, was unable to provide for her four children.

She sold Budhia to a man for 800 rupees ($20).

But the young boy came to the attention of Biranchi Das, a judo coach and the secretary of the local judo association.

Mr Das said he noticed Budhia's talent when scolding him for being a bully.

"Once, after he had done some mischief, I asked him to keep running till I came back," Mr Das told the BBC.

"I got busy in some work. When I came back after five hours, I was stunned to find him still running."

Mr Das, also the president of the residents' association of the run-down area where Budhia used to live, summoned the man who had bought Budhia and paid him his 800 rupees back.
Then started a strict diet and exercise regimen that saw Budhia adding a few kilometres to his daily marathon every few days.
In place of a few lumps of rice that he used to get at his mother's place, he now has a diet of eggs, milk, soybean and meat.
He starts running at 0500 each day and does not stop till noon.
After a few stretching exercises, he has lunch and goes for a siesta.
At 1600 it is time to run again.
Budhia is enjoying his stay at the judo hostel. "I can run and eat to my heart's content here," he says.

His speech is not yet easy to understand. Though he has yet to go to school, he has completed learning the alphabet of Oriya, the local language.

Budhia's coach has now set his eyes on a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

That, he says, will be possible when he can run for 90km at a stretch.

"I have no doubt whatsoever that he will achieve it soon", Mr Das says

From Courtney Cox's imdb.com profile

-Was the first person to ever say "period" on American TV, in a Tampax commercial.

-Helped donate reward money to the Natalie Halloway investigation, having attended the same high school as Natalie

From Dolph Lungren's (AKA IVAN DRAGO from Rocky IV) imdb profile

-Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, Lundgren attended the Royal Institute of Technology. Spending time abroad in the United States on various academic scholarships, he attended Washington State University and Clemson in South Carolina. In 1982, he received a scholarship to complete his Masters degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney in Australia. The following year, he was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship to the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

And yes this is the same guy whose most memorable line was "If he dies he dies....I fight Rocky anyway". The friggin fullbright scholarship!...are you kidding me?

And if that was not enough........
-Speaks five languages: Swedish, English, German, French and Japanese.

I used to think Arnold was created by a WWII German experiment to develop a superhuman....this guy must have been the final version.

-Was once a bodyguard for Grace Jones

Oh okay that is better!


But nothing compares to Woody Harrelson's IMDB Profile

-Was arrested in Columbus (Ohio) in June 1983, charged of disorderly conduct - he was dancing in the street, halting traffic; he later jumped out of a moving police van laughing maniacally and finally punched one of the two arresting officers to the ground.

-Father, Charles Voyde Harrelson, has been convicted twice for committing paid murders. Once in 1968 and again in 1978 (for the murder of Federal Judge John Wood).

-Admits to having been a sex addict. (But aren't we all a little but?)

-A jury in Beattyville, Kentucky dismissed a marijuana possession charge against him. He was arrested in 1996 for planting 4 marijuana hemp seeds in rural Kentucky and in his defence he said he was challenging a state law that makes no distinction between marijuana and hemp, even though hemp contains little of the drug found in marijuana and can be used to make a variety of industrial products.

-He is the first and (as of 2005) the only regular cast member from "Cheers" (1982) to receive a nomination for an Academy Award (Not too much of a shocker!)

So I watched the Eagles/Falcons game last night.

Before the game even started, two players were ejected: Jeremiah Trotter of the Eagles, and Kevin Mathis of the Falcons.

Mathis is a nickleback, and not an especially good one. Trotter is the Eagles absolute best linebacker.

So, surely I can't be the only one who has to wonder if Mathis knew the team could stand to lose him, and picked a fight with Trotter before the game just to make sure they were both ejected.

The Falcons knew that in order for Vick to pick up tons of rushing yardage they would have to somehow stop Trotter. I just didn't know that they'd stoop low enough to play dirty. Then again, their victory dance is what - the "dirty bird"?

Whatever, Atlanta.

As alarming as it may be, this country is run indirectly by the NFL. If you don't believe me, take a look at the last week. With the opening of the NFL season the shift in the attitudes of a large portion of the population can not be ignored. The devastation of the Katrina disaster took a back seat this weekend to a yearly ritual that, to a large percentage of the population, is as important as Christmas or New Years. Even the "refugees" (which happens to be a completely erroneous term considering that these people are Americans) took a break from their hardships to watch the hometown Saints get a victory that did more to lift their spirits than anything in the last couple of weeks. If I was conspiracy theorist I would say that the win was manufactured by the spin machine of the NFL in order to boost the moral of the masses.

But we should not be shocked by this....it has happened before. Many of my longtime readers remember a article I wrote about the alarming similarities between present day America and the Roman empire at it's apex. Whereas now the slaves are very well paid and the Lions are just a team from Detroit the basis is still the same. The gladiatorial arena served a very useful purpose to upper level of Roman society, it kept the masses occupied. It gave them a distraction that served as something to look forward to while they toiled in the fields all week long just to secure the means of a meager survival. It is a simple equation, keeps the masses happy and distracted and you can go on with your agenda without problematic dissension. Does this sound like anyplace else you know?

As we have been told since we were in grade school "Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it". The Roman Empire controlled 80% of the world's population for roughly 500 years, America has been the gold standard in Human civilization for about 230. Are we on the same course of inevitable downward spiral? The signs are there today....corrupt government, civil unrest, race relation instability, financial irresponsibility.... these are all signs that American society is well on it's way to a similar fate. And what are we doing while the country is beginning this fall from grace? We sit in our homes every Sunday feeding from the tithe that is the NFL....

There is not much more that I can say but Go Giants!