Yes Virginia, There Is No 2Pac

That’s right he is not what you thought he was. He was not the “gansta” you thought he was. The one quote I remember about him is “Genius has a tendency of hypocrisy”. Well lets examine his duality.

Tupac Shakur was before anything, an intellect. A man in his younger years desired the spotlight. How a thug came from his life is truly understandable, yet thought-provoking.
How a very tenuous upbringing inspired hate and anger, where his present was only a psychological manifestation of just frustrated based anger and self-loathing.

Here is man who with his desire for the spotlight he was in his younger life was found at high schools that would be considers the city’s version of a “Fame” school. He was well-learned. How else to you explain his selection of books he read: Art of War, Catcher in the Rye, and of course The Prince. The latter title fueled his moniker of Makaveli. He was very interested in the author Machiavelli.


But lets remember here is a man who in his early years were laced with a Black Panther dissolution by the government through drugs and incarceration. That is enough to make any man get angry. He spoke out many times against what he considered inequality of black people. So find the best caricature to use as a platform to express anger…2Pac.

That’s right not Tupac…2Pac. That way he can snap off in his best Black Panther persona. So here you have a man, an angry man, with a strong understanding of what he saw around him. That is enough to make any young man, especially a young black man who can’t have the luxury of “white entitlement” explode! Or did he?

Did he explode or did he implode? The fact that his persona mixed with urban anger and learned background gives credence to his implosion. So let’s look at the complexity of him.

First he constantly said in his lyrics he is not a thug, he paraded around as one especially after he was first shot. Next he always spoke out for what he considered those of us who had god given talent, but were hindered by man given road blocks. He was seeking an understanding of how it could get better for others while always angry at how it could not get better for him.

Tupac was a man who had enough of being told one thing while experiencing another.
That is not a rapper/thug, that is a leader without the ability to lead…he knew not where to go. That is not a man who we saw, but a man who wanted the world he envisioned for us to see.

I always wonder…what if he had lost the bandana, and replaced it with a suit and a briefcase? Where would he be…where would the black youth of America be?
Could he have saw the utopia he wanted for himself and the world and lead us there?

Or would the world have consumed him just like Michael Jackson?

YOU WOULDN'T KNOW CHANGE IF IT FUCKED YOU!

Yes I said it...
America has become the big fat guy on the couch because the recliner is too small!
An example of change is when you see a good idea that works even if it is not your own and use it...
That way of thinking in our culture is UN-AMERICAN!
So I say FUCK THE BIG THREE! LET THEM FAIL! 2 MILLION JOBS LOST...OH WELL!
What do you think is going to happen in three years or so anyway...THE JOBS WILL BE LOST!
They have yet to move forward on any thing new since the model-T! I almost fell the fuck out when I saw muscle cars come back, all the while gas was skyrocketing to inter-fucking-galactic heights!
Make something new...or perish!
I remember watching the Obama infomercial, there was a man who was a 3rd generation auto worker. WTF! 3rd generation! Why cant we move away from a "golden goose" that has more glitter than gold! 3rd generation should be doing something else...don't give me this I have every right to do what I want shit! You must acknowledge a job that has already shown signs of being obsolete is not the job for you! People to Michigan...Allentown or should I say Bethlehem,PA. is not what you want to experience! YOU ALREADY HAVE HAD SIGNS OF THIS! Don't become a victim! Move forward, get education, get some type of skill-set that wont leave you in a capitalistic form of welfare.


And now a moment of confirmation!

What to Do About the Big Three?
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANPublished November 11th 2008
We have a new president-elect, and he (with his predecessor) is facing an old problem: what to do about the Big Three automakers? These companies haven't been innovative or competitive in the marketplace in a generation or more. Now General Motors is looking to the federal government to offer a big aid package to keep the company in business and keep its many thousands of employees working. There is little doubt Ford and Chrysler will follow suit.
This poses a conundrum for anyone committed to bringing about a new Clean Energy System like the one I describe in Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Is it a good idea for the government to rescue GM with a financial package like the ones offered to Wall Street earlier this year, or is such a rescue a way of stimulating ignorance and rewarding the worst offenders, the foes of energy innovation?
If Washington does offer a rescue plan, what terms should the government ask for to hold the Big Three accountable in the new era we are in? Can we really expect the automakers to finally try in earnest to produce plug-in hybrids and other vehicles that use fuel in cleaner, more efficient ways? Is there a good way for the government to extend the rescue to the more competitive, innovative automakers—Honda and Toyota—so that they can take roles in leading the auto business into the Energy-Climate Era at last?

Just Say It...

I was going to allow time before I spoke about the climate of this election…
FUCK THAT! Someone needs to speak on a nuanced fraud…yes you know damn well whom I speak of…the great objection to Obama’s (OH IM SORRY I MEANT MR. PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!) campaign…racism!
So let me say this…just call me a stupid nigger so that we can get past this! Call him a nigger so we can get past this. Call the 63,093,824 voters stupid niggers or nigger-lovers and get past this. Don’t say that you fear what he will do, we heard your “code” for months and we say you are on bullshit! Race card playing has never work for any blacks, it never will. He did not win by pulling the race card, he won by pulling the “anything you can do, I can do better” card.
You have every right to disagree with how he played it, but be honest. Say it I hate him because I hate niggers! Tell us, say it, and talk about it. Let’s have a dialogue about it. He had a high number of blacks true, but blacks vote Democratic anyway. The media (I love the liberal tag) favored him, not because of race, but because they have a duty to make money. When you see thousands of people show up to his rallies, you show them. HELLO! They are capitalist before they are ever any bullshit political assignment. So they didn’t do that because they saw black skin, they saw green.
People voted for him because they needed to see a change, before they could accept a change. I saw that change, I accepted that change. Racism is not change; it is more of the same. I don’t need you to like my skin, but you need to have this talk about my skin. I am tired…tired…tired about this big ass elephant in the corner of every room I walk in. So say it, say we see him differently because of color. Talk about it we hate niggers! Say why! Say how! Then listen, hear not our response to your words but to your own. Is it emotional, is it logical? Can you see a black person as a person? I hope so, change has happened, not due to this election. It is so far removed from the election, which we won’t see the moment change happened for years. So let’s talk about it let’s get past this.

Well it has come...
Remember, this is only the beginning...the alpha.
We have a responsibility to be everything else including the omega.
We must know that no matter what happens, if your candidate wins, he is only apart of the dream. He is not the dream-maker, not the dream-holder, and the dream cannot die. We are the dream, the dreamer, the dream-maker, and above all else...the dreamers of FREEDOM!
Freedom to do things, not things to stop us...Freedom to act as one, not acts to separate us and be alone.
So I'm coming back to speak freely...
AND I'M FUCKING PISSED AT THE SAD, PATHETIC, REPULSIVE ACTIVITY OF SO MANY CLOSED-MINDED PEOPLE...I'M COMING FOR YOU FIRST!
I WILL SHOW EVERYONE YOUR HYPOCRISY...YOU WILL BE EXPOSED!
Now without further ado...to my friends, loved ones and my enemies...
I dedicate this to you...

Wake Up Everybody

Harold Melvin

Wake up everybody no more sleepin in bed

No more backward thinkin time for thinkin ahead

The world has changed so very much

From what it used to be so

there is so much hatred war an' poverty

Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way

Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say

Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their hands

when you teach the children teach em the very best you can.

Chorus

The world won't get no better if we just let it be

The world won't get no better we gotta change it yeah, just you and me.

Wake up all the doctors make the ol' people well

They're the ones who suffer an' who catch all the hell

But they don't have so very long before the Judgement Day

So won'tcha make them happy before they pass away.

Wake up all the builders time to build a new land

I know we can do it if we all lend a hand

The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind

Surely things will work out they do it every time.

Repeat Chorus.

Why I hope this was only the beginning of the end...

Pundits! Pundits! Pundits!

Talking Points! Talking Points! Talking Points!

Blah blah blah!

It never seems to end, but the truth never begins. I wonder so often how we as a whole have given up the process of independent thoughts or stances. We have talking points or should I just simply say...whatever it takes to get me what I want.

So...there is Crossfire...one of my favorite shows for awhile. Then I started to ask questions to solve what I thought were the problems of today. Then I got angry, if I can do this why cant they. Then anger left, hate became necessary, why haven't they tried to solve anything.

I guess someone else thought the same...

Jon Stewart's appearance
On October 15, 2004, Jon Stewart appeared on the program and, in a pointed discussion with Carlson and Begala, disparaged the format and the politically shallow arguments that it led to. In Stewart's words: "It's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America ... Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America." Stewart's main criticism was that the program failed its responsibility to the public discourse and indulged in "partisan hackery". Carlson tried to counter Stewart's criticisms that Crossfire was just part of the political system and wasn't asking truly probing questions by leveling criticisms against Stewart's own recent interview on The Daily Show with presidential candidate John Kerry, saying that Stewart wasn't harsh enough on Kerry. Stewart expressed suprise that Carlson would compare the parody-based Daily Show with the journalistic standards on a professional news channel like CNN, and commented on the absurdity of "looking to Comedy Central for standards of journalistic integrity".
Throughout the interview, Stewart's questions about journalistic integrity were ignored and responded to by Carlson and Begala criticizing The Daily Show rather than addressing the criticisms of their own program. Stewart cuttingly pointed out that "You're on CNN! The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls!" Carlson then referred to Stewart as John Kerry's "butt boy". At one point, Carlson abruptly cut to commercial by turning away from the Daily Show host and towards the camera, stating, "I do think you're more fun on your show, just my opinion." Stewart quickly replied, "You know what's interesting though? You're as big a dick on this show as you are on any show."[1]
Following his appearance, transcripts and live stream footage were released on the Internet and widely watched and discussed. The episode itself had 867,000 viewers (the average number of viewers Crossfire had per episode in the previous month was about 615,000).[2] As of April 12, 2008, the 13 minute 30 second clip had over 3,960,873 views on iFilm, making it the third most popular video of all time on that web site.[3]

As a direct result of Stewart's criticism [1], in January 2005 CNN announced that it would not be renewing Carlson's contract. In a news release containing the announcement, CNN CEO Jonathan Klein indicated that he wanted to change the tone of shows on the network. Shortly thereafter it was announced that it would be canceled as a freestanding series, possibly to become a shorter, "gentler," segment of Inside Politics [2]. Its last episode aired on June 3, 2005 and the Crossfire pundits began appearing on Inside Politics the following Monday before relocating to that show's successor, The Situation Room. However, the GWU Crossfire set remained in use for the CNN weekend series On The Story, which had an audience interaction format.
On hearing the news of Crossfire's cancellation, on his own show Jon Stewart quipped "I fought the law, and the law lost!"[3]

We always have the law...right?

So regulation and oversight is bad...that is for corporations. But for our sorry asses...




WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a controversial bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.
The law creates an intellectual property czar who will report directly to the president on how to better protect copyrights both domestically and internationally. The Justice Department had argued that the creation of this position would undermine its authority.
The law also toughens criminal laws against piracy and counterfeiting, although critics have argued that the measure goes too far and risks punishing people who have not infringed.
The Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America backed the bill, as did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
"By becoming law, the PRO-IP Act sends the message to IP criminals everywhere that the U.S. will go the extra mile to protect American innovation," said Tom Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Counterfeiting and piracy costs the United States nearly $250 billion annually, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Rick Cotton, general counsel for NBC Universal, said the bill would give movie and music makers more tools to fight what he called a "tidal wave" of counterfeiting and piracy of everything from medical devices to automobile parts to media by organized crime.
"That is at the core of what this discussion is about," he said. "It is not about teenagers."
Cotton said he did not expect an IP czar to be named before Bush's term ended in January.
Richard Esguerra, spokesman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said he was relieved to see lawmakers had stripped out a measure to have the Justice Department file civil lawsuits against pirates, which would have made the attorneys "pro bono personal lawyers for the content industry."
But the advocacy group Public Knowledge had argued that the law went too far, especially given that fair use of copyrighted material was already shrinking.
Public Knowledge particularly opposed a measure that allowed for the forfeiture of devices used in piracy.
"Let's suppose that there's one computer in the house, and one person uses it for downloads and one for homework. The whole computer goes," said Public Knowledge spokesman Art Brodsky.
Brodsky argued that, at best, the bill was unnecessary because the recording and movie industry had the right to take accused infringers to court.
"There's already lots and lots of penalties for copyright violations," he said. "They've got all the tools they need."
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Bernard Orr, Gary Hill)

THIS DEVIL DOESN'T NEED AN ADVOCATE

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Now with that being said…
9/11 happened on Republican watch…why are we letting them challenge anyone else’s alternative options…they don’t know shit.
Marijuana should be and must be decriminalized…I need a hit!
Dennis Kucinich should be our next president…he wont…he is asking for things that would help us. We sure as fuck don’t want that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich

Gay people should be allowed to get married…how in the FUCK did all these bullshit, fake ass Christians become the moral barometer for the country…gay people aren’t collectively evil…So quit making me think “thou protest too much”. Yes you must be gay if you bitch about all fucking day. I don’t care who you sleep with male or female…but…
CAN I WATCH?
Music is an art based on opinion…so enjoy Robin Thicke’s “Lost Without You”. I like it too. But don’t doubt for one minute that is'nt yet another Justin Timberfake in the making…
Don’t believe me listen to his first album, he is out to make money not art!
Quit telling me smoking is disgusting! You know what is disgusting…this is!

Try eating now after that pic…
It has been proven that a person knows what they want…but a collection of people don’t know shit! Any doubts refer to my Christian rant above.
Quit saying we need to ban words like NIGGER, BITCH, AND HOE. We need those words for past and future reference…when you hear someone use that word you know they are stupid! It is a helpful tool. Hopefully the youth of today can understand that those words started as a precursor to an assault on the body, the spirit, and the history of violence that our predecessors lived with should not be forgotten.
Guns don’t kill people…people kill people! So NO gun control! You control yours and Ill control mine. But if one more NRA fucker defends the right to bear arms that has a hollow tipped bullet I say we shoot him with one and then if he still is for the right to bear arms we will let him keep it.
On more person say to me it is what it is as a way to say that just the way things are I’m going to have to hurt someone.
Back to music…it hasn’t gotten worse; your exposure to it has gotten wider…
Things are not what it used to be…true but shit was fucked up back in the day as well.

Now with that being said…
Let’s demystify some quotes or better yet let’s just tell it as my Grandma would say…

Im not hatin, Im just sayin means you hatin on what you are sayin!
Luther was is and always will be gay!!!!!!!!!!! He knew if he came out his career would have been over!!!!!!! Don’t believe me? What was the last George Michael song you heard? Even though Luther could sing rings around all these wannabes he would still had been made to be a monster! All because he was Gay!!!!!!!
Again we care about who everybody is fucking?

Ladies quit saying there are not any good men because you are single…unless the men can say the same!
Quit asking for PRINCE CHARMING when you are acting like the evil ass stepsister!
Be Snow White and someday soon your PRINCE will come!
If you don’t know what that means…that s why your ass is single!

What in the hell is wrong with saying “all I want from you is sex”!
It is forward and honest! Damn isn’t that what you want the right to choose?! I see women give it up with less honesty even though you know the truth!

If sisters don’t like it when men get with white women…
HOW IN THE FUCK DID HEATHER HEADLEY HAVE TWO HIT ALBUMS? HER HUSBAND IS WHITE!!!!!!!!
I’m not hating…yes I am!!!!!!!!!!
Let Musiq or Maxwell show up with a white wife and Sisters would lynch their asses!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN THE END I SHALL BE MY ONLY ENEMY

Imagine for a moment you are an addict, I mean hardcore, do not worry about the drug or activity of choice. Any help you seek will recommend stopping it and replacing it with something healthy.
Now with that in mind there are many addictions we live with day to day, yet consciously go on with them. Lets start with the one I see on the daily…Greed.

Greed is called a selfish desire to obtain money, wealth, material possessions or any other entity more than one legitimately needs. Greed is listed as one of the Catholic seven deadly sins, usually by the synonym of avarice. A basic desire to increase one's wealth is generally considered acceptable in Western culture, and simple want is not considered greed. Instead, most believe that there are varying degrees to the pursuit of material wealth, with greed being the most extreme form, with one desiring things simply for the purpose of having them. Greed may entail acquiring material possessions at the expense of another person's welfare (for example, a father buying himself a new car rather than fix the roof of his family's home) or otherwise reflect flawed priorities.
When greed entails the covetousness of another person's attributes, the term envy is used. When greed is applied to the subject of the excessive consumption of food or drink the term gluttony is often used, another of the Catholic seven deadly sins. Greed is sometimes represented by the frog.
Buddhists believe greed is based on incorrectly connecting material wealth with happiness. This is caused by a view that exaggerates the positive aspects of an object.
Proponents of ultra-capitalism, including Objectivists, argue that greed should not be considered a negative trait and should instead be embraced, as they claim it is the emotion on which the capitalist economic system is based. Critics have argued this definition confuses greed with self interest, which can be more benign.

I place this one at the highest of them all due to the fact that I am in school for psychology. I ask myself with what is wrong with the world today how can anyone truly be helped? The biggest reason this question was posed is I see how much of ourselves are so heavily guarded. We do not share the only thing we have of any significant value…us.
We live as if we are stockpiling everything we consider to be valuable, all the while knowing the only time we share is to “flex”. I understand that it is in our nature not to be trusting of every Tom, Dick, and Harry, but are we truly placing our allegiance in those who have not the interest of the collective at heart.
Hell, even Ayn Rand whom many intellects admire and study endorses the “individual” over the “collective”. And with that in mind we have become the devolution of man, not the improved, just the new man.
One day when these thoughts rang in my head I came with an answer that I cant seem to let go of…we must work together or perish…yes I said perish! Remove your emotional filters for a moment and ask, are we improving the world we live in? If the answer is no or I’m not certain we are on our way to nowhere. The saying” if you are not getting better you are getting worse” echoes in my mind.
There are too many secrets we keep and far too many “things” we just wont share. For the life of me I don’t know why unless it is greed based…you know.
I wont share my knowledge because someone will do better than me and “I” will be considered a failure.
I will cheat on my spouse because if they know they might leave me or want in on the action.
I wont share my wealth because then how would people know “im” rich.
Hidden agendas permeate through our day to day lives so much that it is not only accepted it is imitated. We embrace the rich only hoping to one day get what they have, as if we can learn from the very people who keep us in our places. We admire the intellects as if they are going to one day on their deathbeds share that knowledge.
I am not having that we need everything now not later. Later has become too late too many times for us to accept that philosophy.
So what can we replace with that dangerous stance…trust.
I truly look forward to your thoughts on this, more so than your opinion. The difference is I don’t want you to tell me if you like it(although it will be appreciated), I would like to know what we can do to unite one another.

PRIDE IN THE NAME OF LOVE

If—
by Rudyard Kipling
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!



Now, with that being said where in the fuck is that man?
I know he or she is at home looking at the state of this country, all races, and all creeds, thinking “WHY WOULD I EVER LEAD YOU FUCKERS”?
Our pride in things that we love has destroyed the very fiber of our world. There has yet to be a detractor come forth and say it is wrong. What is wrong? Everything is wrong. Education…failure, relationships…do you really think Oprah has the answers? Health care…do you even have it? JOBS AND WAGES…HOW IN THE WORLD CAN YOU BUY A LOAF OF BREAD WHEN YOU MAKE 6.50 AN HR?
Now, with that being said there is a disconnect from the things we love and the things we dislike about it.
I love my child and, they need to act right, I love my neighborhood, and it needs to be rebuilt. I love my mate and they need to prove that love. I love my country and it needs to get it together.
Note, there was not one mention of the word but…you know the word that negates everything you have previously said. Time and time again we have gone with the grain, lived in our comfort zones and not just one time realized that there is entirely too much pain in these directions.
Where is the going in a different direction, because the way we are going is the wrong way?
Where is the you know” I LOVE THIS AND IT CAN BE BETTER, BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE.”
We live in disparagement yet, we just wont say its wrong, here is why, and here is what we can do differently to correct it.
Not live like this or be afraid of the class bully saying
“YOU CANT JUST CUT AND RUN”

Why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe im losing my shit here…either we don’t get it or we just don’t care.

There is a reason I wrote this…a lot of people feel the same way! I think we have lost sight of the purpose of why and how and gotten on the path of whom.
We have become victims of the “cult of personality”. I don’t care who gets me universal health care, a good and accessible education, and living wage, not a minimum wage, world peace through diplomacy, and above all equality! What I do care about is how we do it. Can we effectively create these things where someone does not gain by another group’s loss? Also can we listen to the loud decay of the presents past still in our future and learn from it?
When did abortion, creationism, family values, or anything culturally founded become political? We should be discussing things that can be for the good of all. God, unwanted pregnancy, and who is gay cant be so important that we lose sight of a 700 BILLION bailout that according to our government will save us. Hell if its to save us give us the money, either way its welfare. Abortion is a medical procedure. Until a Doctor can come out and prove that it is murder, move on. God is a faith-based belief, since He is not talking on the corner of Times Square; keep him where He asked to be, in your hearts and minds, not in your political agenda.

Ok…here it is. Success, power and money. That is what happens when the rich assemble in a room. That is what they think about. Race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and every other useless title that you can come up with happen when poor people assemble in a room. Hell I once saw a hair texture argument; yes I said a hair texture argument!
We have nothing so we argue about nothing; we speak in hidden agendas that are so driven by our ego that we can’t get a damn thing done. I won’t listen to her, she is a white woman, I won’t listen to him, we always have to listen to a white man, that brother doesn’t know what he is talking about he only graduated High school. Why should we listen to her, she an agnostic bi-sexual, and the bitch is black!

If a person is beating the shit out of you does it matter what gender, race, religion or whatever the hell they are. You want them to go to jail!

Check our egos. We identify way the fuck too much!

The state of the world is getting very dire, not apocalyptical, but enough to say this had better stop here.