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Kobe Bryant looking like a f**king fa**ot in this photo by Ruven Afandor.
Kobe Bryant did the unthinkable. In a moment of heated passion and utter annoyance at a play on a basketball court, he spewed the two words that no homosexual likes to hear. This quickly became GLAAD’s call to arms, rainbow flag in hand, crying (with tears) foul. There was a time that simply the F-word was taboo extraordinaire on the courts with penalties mounting as the inner city kids were taking over the sport. This recent Kobe-Gate multiplies the drama times two because when he screamed F**cking Fa**ot, he was not just whistling Dixie. It was a double entendre and you had two no-no’s for the price of one.
As a homosexual Jew who would have slaughter in minutes by the Nazis and a few current Republicans, I would like to draw a line in the sand and say that it is OK to cross it. We all say words that we do not mean literally. As the world become beyond homogenized and political correctness traps up into a frozen state of not knowing what to say, I say let bygones be bygones and just don’t make a habit of it. A year ago I wrote a piece called The End of Political Correctness and to this day, I think it still holds true. Frankly, things never will change. There will be N-words and F-words till Judgment Day, so why judge people for a slip of the tongue? A slap on the wrist , rather, a slap on the ass is the appropriate penalty here.
Here is what I wrote on April 2, 2010:
Over the last few decades, we have become curiously, annoyingly and extremely politically correct and certain words have become absolutely taboo. That which was once acceptable is now considered offensive and there are times when you just don’t know what to say for fear of offending anyone or everyone around you. In the early 1970s, I was bussed to an all–black high school. “Black” was the acceptable term then, whereas now, “African-American” is the new black, replacing what was once the new “colored”. My ancestors are from Russia and Poland, do I walk around saying I am Russian-American, or worse, Polish-American? We are caught in the quagmire of what is the “right thing to say” and quite frankly, I see no light at the end of this tunnel – not even a glimmer.
The expression “politically correct” or “political correctness” can be traced back to 1920s Germany, when communist academia sought to impose their views on students. The term became more frequently used in the 1960s and 1970s by suburban bleeding-heart liberals, feminists and progressives who were intent on impacting the media, while leaving an emotional imprint on the Baby Boomer generation. As Boomers became adults, they clung on to the notion of being “politically correct”, however, adapting some of the initial ideas to surprisingly new and often meticulously planed-out hidden agendas.
What we now have is a wide-ranging group of hypocrites in charge of the media and most industries, where everyone is expected to play nice in the sandbox. The climate of corporate politics suggests that you “keep your head down” while those in higher positions, do as they please regarding dubious hiring practices, stealing, or worse, illegal activities as in the case of the banking culture and while I am at it, the Catholic Church. I refer to this group as the “nouveaux-hypocritical”. In light of the recent attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day in Detroit by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (a.k.a. “The Underwear Bomber”), there’s a renewed outcry for stricter airport screening regarding “certain types”, or, as it is more commonly referred to, racial profiling. Then again, at the risk of sounding like a total bigot, is that actually such a bad idea? The Muslim Public Affairs Council calls racial profiling unconstitutional. But from where I’m sitting, it is equally unconstitutional to sew explosives into your Calvins to bring a plane down on Christmas Day.
When Richard Reid (a.k.a. “The Shoe Bomber”) was captured, we automatically started checking everyone’s shoes… even old ladies’ with large, unsightly corns. Umar’s bomb was hidden in his underwear, so now what? Will security guards start pulling down our pants? Random wedgies? There’s some fancy detective work for you. Isn’t it easier to identify a certain type of individual that we can all look at cross-eyed? The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is claiming invasion of privacy and rejecting the controversial full body scans. Feel free to check out my ass in order to secure safe passage. How about that recent case in Saudi Arabia where the Al-Qaeda member had an explosive stashed in his anal cavity. What next, proctologists moonlighting for the sake of airport security? Immediately after 9-11, while working with a writer on her promotional book tour, we had to continue the planned nine-city schedule. This involved several plane rides, one of which was to Kentucky, where one of the reported terrorists had lived. Believe me, we were doing our own version of racial profiling aplenty. It was more anecdotal than a serious bid to rid evildoers, but I found much comfort in giving the evil eye to a host of “certain-types”. Was I being politically incorrect? Thank you.
To see the list of things you simply cannot say…
There are expressions that you can no longer say and on the same token things that you have to say…or else! Here is a list of the most important ones, to ensure you stay politically correct in these confusing times:
1. Worldwide no-no is the N-word.
2. People with intellectual disabilities no longer can be called Retarded. Whereas I find it most applicable in the case of Umar, that retarded member of the Lucky Sperm Club who tried blowing up Flight 253 on Christmas Day.
3. African-American, Asian-American, Latino-American, Corporate-American.
4. Child-Obesity is the politically correct term for Fat Kid these days. As an ex-fatty, call me fatso any day over “You obese baboon”.
5. Tranny hookers now must be referred to as Transgender Sex Workers. As a past resident of the Meatpacking District in New York City back in the 1990’s, I can assure you; “tranny hooker” is how they referred to themselves. It was the uber-political correct LGBT Community Center that put that glamorous title onto them and consequently killed their business.
6. Homosexuals became really Gay around the time of the Stonewall Riots in the 1969, birthing the Gay Rights movement. Whereas in England, Fags are the correct term for cigarettes.
7. The women’s equality movement escalated in the 1970’s demanding equal pay for equal work, which also birthed the Bitch in the Workplace.
8. Midgets must now be referred to as Little People, even in the Wonderful Land of Oz and Munchkin Land.
9. Secretaries needed an ego boost and the only option was a title as opposed to a raise, so they settled for Administrative Assistant, which sure beats Mistress.
10. Housewives once they heard that their husband’s secretaries were getting a verbal promotion, quickly jumped on the bandwagon and demanded to be called Domestic Engineers. Those who survive Fucked Up Upbringings, which is most of us, can now say we came from Dysfunctional Families.
11. Someone Crippled became Handicapped, which evolved into Disabled and now is officially Physically Challenged…until that will be simply unacceptable.
Now matter what you say or do, there is always a 50% chance that you will be utterly, terribly and embarrassingly wrong. So, either we just stop talking and communicating altogether or rather, say whatever we want and let the chips fall where they may.
Read more: http://imeanwhat.com/canyoubelieve/kobe-minced-meat-bryant#ixzz1JWKSDSDoKobe Bryant looking like a f**king fa**ot in this photo by Ruven Afandor.
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“Pass The Bucket: Stephen Murray” is a heart-wrenching, but also very inspiring 5-minute documentary short film directed by Eliot Rausch, whose previous documentary “Last Minutes with Oden” was named Best Documentary and Best Video at the 2010 Vimeo Awards.
June 22, 2007 marked a day that the Action Sports world will remember for a lifetime, a day that forever changed the life of professional BMX rider and three-time U.S. Gold Medalist, Stephen Murray. During competition in the BMX Dirt Finals at the Dew Actions Sports Tour in Baltimore (MD), while in the midst of doing a double back flip, Murray had what has been described as one of the worst crashes ever seen in BMX competition. In that catastrophic tragedy, the incredibly talented 27 year-old athlete suffered career ending injuries to his spinal cord, which left him paralyzed below the shoulders.
Almost four years later, Murray’s life has changed drastically. Fully paralyzed, Stephen now lives a different reality, but he has come to view it as a platform to help others. He continues to embrace each day and in his own words, “stay strong.” In the documentary, Murray describes the accident he endured, the changes to his life as a result of it and what enables him to continue fighting. And in true Stephen Murray fashion, his strength and perseverance continues to inspire. Stay strong.
Through his Stay Strong Foundation and courageous determination, Stephen surprisingly has found a powerful way to pass the bucket.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the remarkable documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/stephen-murray-a-story-of-incredible-suffering-and-courageous-determination/“Pass The Bucket: Stephen Murray” is a heart-wrenching, but also very... more
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The 1910s was a dynamic and tumultuous decade that ushered in the modern era. “Our Future Is In The Air” is an eclectic centennial exhibition devoted to photography of the 1910s. The exhibition provides a fascinating look at the birth of modern life through photographs by some 30 artists, who include: Eugène Atget, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Eugène Druet, Lewis Hine, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Adolph de Meyer, Christian Schad, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, and Stanislaw Witkiewicz, among others.
As cameras became smaller, faster, and easier to operate, amateur photographers such as the child prodigy Jacques-Henri Lartigue pushed the medium in directions that trained photographers of the time shied away from. Since Lartigue was recognized much later as a key figure in photography, prints such as the ones showing speeding motorcar are exceedingly rare. Lartigue made one of his most memorable photographs, Le Grand Prix A.C.F. (1913), by swinging his camera in the same direction as the car, as it sped by. The camera also afforded access to the previously invisible, such as the trajectory created by simple changes in body position, shown in the motion studies by Futurist artist Anton Giulio Bragaglia.
At the same time, photography became an agent of democratic communication, and documentary photographers used its growing influence to expose degrading conditions of workers, the injustice of child labor, and the devastation of war. Beginning in 1908, Lewis Hine made 5,000 photographs of children working in mills, sweatshops, factories, and street trades.
During World War I, photography was utilized to document the mass casualties of mechanized warfare. The exhibition presents an evocative 1918 photograph of Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks entertaining a huge crowd at a war bonds rally on Wall Street.
The presentation is accompanied by video of Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires, a 1915 serial about a brazen band of criminals, which was shot on the streets of Paris (silent film with music track).
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs, a slide show and Louis Feuillade’s 1915 film, “Les Vampires”
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“Thursday” is an immaculately designed animated short film directed by Matthias Hoegg at London’s Beakus animation studio. The fascinating animation was nominated for a 2011 British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for Short Animation. The film is stylistically captivating, full of digitally-inspired patterns and geometric compositions that were were created in 2D and 3D to evoke a dazzling futuristic world. It presents an everyday love story set in the not so distant future, where ubiquitous electronic access doesn’t necessarily guarantee a connection, with some blackbirds battling with technology, automatic palm readers and power outages thrown into the mix.
This piece includes a number of colorful high-resolution illustrations, as well as the acclaimed animated short film.
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“Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” is an exhibition of photographs currently on view at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present time. For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others.
This piece presents a number of high-resolution color and black-and-white photographs, and a photo-gallery.
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“I’ll Call You Back” is a very funny new two-minute short film by the English filmmaker Mark Kuczewski. A young fellow is sitting at home trying to watch his favorite sports program on television, while his lady friend is sitting next to him and chattering away on the phone. Now there are times like this when nothing is more annoying than a woman talking endlessly on the phone. But if you dare to complain, just be very careful about what might come next!
This piece include a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the wicked funny short film.
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PJ Harvey has long been considered one of England’s most innovative and iconoclastic female artists and with her 8th studio album ‘Let England Shake’ she embarks on a historical musical voyage as she seeks to define her relationship with the land of her birth. This is a musical excavation of England’s very soil, of its history and the violent and bloody cycles of conflict that have shaped the nations geography and psyche. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/album-rewievs/39118-pj-harvey-let-england-shake-reviewfree-albumPJ Harvey has long been considered one of England’s most innovative and... more
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The immediate impact of the federal shortage of sodium thiopental is minimal. A lawsuit challenging the federal government's injection procedures is pending, and the U.S. government has not executed anyone since 2003. The letter didn't explain how the government ran out of the drug, but all remaining supplies of it expire this year.
Some states, including Arizona, California, Georgia and Tennessee, have obtained supplies of sodium thiopental from England, although the British government has since banned its export for use in executions.
In February, death row inmates in Arizona, California and Tennessee sued the Food and Drug Administration to block imports of the drug. The lawsuit claims the FDA has knowingly allowed state corrections officials to import sodium thiopental that has not been approved by the agency.
States wrote U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in January asking for help obtaining sodium thiopental. The anesthetic is used by virtually all death penalty states, but supplies ran short when its U.S. manufacturer stopped production.
"At the present time, the federal government does not have any reserves of sodium thiopental for lethal injections and is therefore facing the same dilemma as many states," Holder said in a March 4 letter sent to the National Association of Attorneys General and obtained by The Associated Press.
Holder said the lack of an available supply of sodium thiopental "is a serious concern."
Justice Department spokeswoman Alisa Finelli said the agency had no comment.
The states that signed the January letter asking Holder for help are: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
Oklahoma and Ohio have switched to pentobarbital, a surgical sedative, as an alternative. Oklahoma uses it along with drugs to paralyze inmates and stop their hearts. Ohio uses it alone.
The drug was used Thursday to kill death row inmate Johhnie Baston, who died 13 minutes after executioners started the injection. Baston, 37, briefly gasped and appeared to grimace, but the moment passed quickly and he lay still for most of the process. Baston was convicted of killing Chong-Hoon Mah, 53, a South Korean immigrant whose family opposes the death penalty and was against Baston's execution.The immediate impact of the federal shortage of sodium thiopental is minimal. A... more
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Proof of service of the amendment to the previously filed Judicial Review Versus the High Court of Justice of England Justice Hogg has been filed:
http://justices.tv/AMENDMEND_TO_JUDICIAL_REVIEW_AGAINST_CAFCASS,_GUARDIAN_AD_LIT...
A JUDICIAL REVIEW HAS BEEN FILED VERSUS JUSTICE MARY HOGG FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND.
FURTHER DETAILS OF GROUNDS AND EVENTS FOR THE JUDICIAL REVIEW AGAINST JUSTICE HOGG AND THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND (ROYAL COURT OF ENGLAND) ARE PROVIDED AT:
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8271479-justice-hogg-accused-of-fraud-aiding-and-abetting-kidnapping-and-conspiracy-to
The Judicial Review provides evidence on line of the conspiracy that exist in family courts, civil courts and the Justice System to obtain gains in the millions.
Citizens across the world become victims of the system that suppose to protect them, and the attorneys and this exposed secret society, obtain gains by creating the biggest conflict they can, destroying families, corporations, and every one as long as they obtain gains.
A simple case that exposes an international conspiracy, international crimes, and criminal organizations working within the "Justice System" .
Children, the elderly, the tax payers are victims of a system made to fail for the purpose of obtaining gains, obtaining gains and more gains.
How do you sale crime? TV
Have you ever had an attorney? Did you wonder why the proceedings take so long? Why cases that could be resolved in a day last years?
Why so expensive?
Justice is simple, and is common sense, simply balance.
Without the meaning of Justice, the system is lost in a process and Justice is lost.
Justice is also simple, seek the balance and apply the laws, Constitutions, codes, acts etc...made for the service of justice, but they use "Case law" getting into other conflicts and a fraud or wrongfull judgment of a judge somewhere within the common wealth, spreads like a disease by the mafia of attorneys.
Justice is Common sense.
Follow this case of international networks of attorneys, influences reaching Tony Blair and fraud all over the Court, exposed in a click.February 28, 2011
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In a sensational game of cricket at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, India and England held their nerves and played a tie. Both teams shared one point each. This is the fourth tie match in the World Cup history.
link :http://www.breakingnewsonline.net/cricket/7151-2011-world-cup-india-vs-england-match-ends-in-In a sensational game of cricket at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, India and... more
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The illusive JR has pasted gigantic portraits all over the world, and the public still doesn’t know the artist’s full name. He insists on JR, which are his real initials. He refers to his performance-exhibitions as the mix of photography with graffiti art. His work involves showing up in a shantytown in Kenya or a favela in Brazil, a place where some event has been noted in the media and has captured his attention. His work turns it inside out, photographing the residents, then wrapping their buildings with the results, on a scale so vast that you can see their eyes from the sky.
Often he works through the night, and as soon as he’s done, he disappears; so when the installation becomes front-page news, there is no one left to explain it but the people whose voices had not been previously heard. As a woman from Kibera, a neighborhood in Nairobi, put it in Women Are Heroes, a documentary recently released in France that JR made about his work: “Photos can’t change the environment. But if people see me there, they’ll ask me: ‘Who are you? Where do you come from?’ And then I’m proud.”
JR’s collection of works entitled “Women Are Heroes” features a compelling and empowering style focused on the struggles of women in society today. JR was recently awarded the 2011 TED Prize for “Women Are Heroes.” At the age of 28, JR is the youngest recipient of the $100,000 prize.
JR’s latest project is “The Wrinkles of the City,” an installation of street pieces in Shanghai (and later, in other large cities). The project features images of the elderly, who represent the memory of the city. The photographs have been pasted up at locations that he feels speak to the heritage of a city that has definitely had its share of ups and downs, “from the Japanese occupation, the establishment of the Communist Party, The Liberation, World War II, the end of the foreign concessions, the victory of Mao Zedong over the General Tchang Kaï-Chek’s troops, the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward to the actual development of the city.“
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/jr-the-compellingly-powerful-street-art-of-a-guerrilla-photograffeur/The illusive JR has pasted gigantic portraits all over the world, and the public still... more
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“Analog” is an exhibition at London’s Riflemaker Gallery that invites you inside the last of London’s photographic darkrooms, as well as taking a visit to a working reel-to-reel music studio, courtesy of an installation by Lewis Durham of the band Kitty, Daisy and Lewis.
English photographer Richard Nicholson chose to photograph professional darkrooms because they are often shrouded in mystery, hidden behind the tidy glass facade of the lab’s front desk. The spaces he discovered were often haphazard and brimming with personal details: coffee cups, CD collections, family snapshots, unpaid invoices, curious knick-knacks brought back by globe-trotting photographers. These human elements transformed what might have been a detached typology of modernist industrial design into something more intimate and nuanced.
Many of the iconic images of recent decades were crafted in these rooms. Mike Spry’s high contrast lith prints of U2 and Depeche Mode for music photographer Anton Corbijn, Peter Guest’s black and white prints of the Trainspotting cast for portrait photographer Lorenzo Agius and Brian Dowling’s intricately masked colour prints for fashion photographer Nick Knight.
In Summer 2006, when Nicholson first began to shoot the images of professional darkrooms in and around London, some 204 were still in existence, continuing the printing of image from film-stock to paper within the new digital era. However, when he completed the project some three years later, only 6 remained.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and a music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/analog-the-end-of-professional-photographic-darkrooms-and-recording-studios/“Analog” is an exhibition at London’s Riflemaker Gallery that... more
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The Telegraph...
Prince launches innovative new drive to protect red squirrels
The Prince of Wales has launched a drive to save the nation’s red squirrels by planting more trees where the animals are still surviving and killing greys in the surrounding area.
The Prince of Wales is backing a scheme to protect red squirrels in the north of England
Louise Gray
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent 3:49PM GMT 17 Feb 2011
Red squirrels have been almost wiped out in Britain since the introduction of their grey cousins from North America at the end of the 19th century, except for a few pockets such as the north of England.
In the past conservation programmes have focused on protecting the colonies that are still left from encroachment by greys, which spread a deadly pox and compete for food sources.
But in an innovative new approach the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, that was launched by the Prince over a year ago, is piloting a new approach.
There are 17 red squirrel strongholds in northern England with an estimated 140,000 red squirrels left in Britain, but more than 2.5 million greys, according to the Forestry Commission.
Red Squirrels Northern England will attempt to expand and even join up where possible the red squirrels ‘hot spots’. The innovative project will see volunteers planting trees to create green corridors and new habitat so the animals can move around more easily and grow their populations.
At the same time more than one thousand volunteers will help to control the grey squirrel population in the surrounding area by trapping and killing the animals.
It is hoped the five year scheme will help red squirrels to re-establish in the area and perhaps even spread.
The Prince of Wales has described red squirrels as “one of the most charming and irresistable of British native mammals” and is supporting a project to reintroduce the species in the south west.
But animal rights activists argue greys do not have to be killed to protect the reds, for example by vaccinating against the pox and managing woodland correctly.The Telegraph...
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“Wish 143” is an acclaimed, quietly bittersweet short film directed by British filmmaker Ian Barnes, which is a 2011 Oscar Nominee for Best Live-Action Short Film. The film presents the touching emotional drama of a fifteen-year-old boy with only months to live, who is granted one final wish from the Dreamscape Charity. But David doesn’t want to go to Disneyland or meet Gary Neville; what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman. The air of impending mortality hangs over this gentle, wry tale, which in the end has little to do with sex and everything to do with the human need to find connection.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the emotionally touching short film.
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A woman in her 70s managed to avert a jewellery store robbery by taking on the six armed thieves with her handbag.
When the unnamed OAP saw a group of men smashing the Norhampton-based shop's windows and helping themself to the jewellery inside, she ran over and started clobbering them with her bag. Baffled and concerned things would escalate, the six men tried to flee but one fell of his bike. Vigilante granny laid into him, despite him swinging a hammer at her, until other members of the public ran over and helped her. Brilliantly, the whole thing was caught on video by a bystander.
Police managed to arrest four men in connection with the raid.
Let's take a moment to salute some other anonymous heroes:
Everyone credits Gandhi with popularising the non-violent way of dealing with force in others, but were his methods as hilariously smooth as this trouser-tugging hero's? Damn right they weren't.
Nothing was going to stop this motorcyclist as he made his getaway after pinching a woman's bag. Except, evidently, a bicycle to the face.
Man tries to rob shop. Man gets chased off by samurai sword-wielding owner. Man buys new underwear.
In Australia, thieves wielding machetes try to rob a bar full of bikes. Needless to say, they won't be trying that again in a hurry.
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