A New way of thinking! Zeitgeist: Addendum

Sup people, I know I been gone for a month, but I told you from the start that this wouldn't be a frequent thing, just spur of the moment type deal! Anyway, I stumbled upon this movie by way of a forum I frequent (www.boxden.com) and found this posted and thought it was an anime or something! So I check it out and the thread starter is talking about how good this movie is and that everyone will be angered, but enlightenend about the real situation this country faces with it's current economic and social structure! I fig'd I'd give it a chance since I've seen flicks like bowling for columbine and the like. I just got done watching it and it blew my fucking mind how WRONG our financial and political system really is! This isn't some normal propaganda for one political party or how people should all be tree hugging hippies, this is real talk about why our country is facing H-E double hockey sticks w/ sunburn already over 50% of the body! 

I'm gonna post the link to a streaming version of the movie. I hope anyone who comes here will take some time to watch even the 1st 15 mins of this to help their thought process! 

Zeitgeist: Addendum - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

Spoiler alert: I wish I could do tenet 5 (I think) of not joining the military, but its still a decision that at the time felt was the lesser of two evils and filled a void! I don't know where I would be w/o it, but I do know if this world becomes a police state, then I'm gonna have to go rouge or help ppl from the inside! Aside from that I think I'm gonna try to do more to help my family become more self-sufficient and off the grid in the coming years!

Lastly I say open up your minds, think of "my country is the world... and my religion is to do good!" - Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809

full-time parent, part-time Jaret

Hey all,

Todays thoughts are going to resonate w/ every parent that spends at least the mornings w/ their child(ren).  This morning like many others I awoke to the sounds of my daughter Layla panting and then moving around her crib to stand up. Since birth we've slept in the same room. The three of us have our morning rituals, Layla waking up and inturn waking me up to get her a bottle and change of diaper. My wife works overnight so we're usually passing each other in the morning in a foggy daze of our former selves. I'm trying to get Layla ready, she's trying to get some sleep so later she can spend time with us before I leave out to go on errands! 

I spend most of time here at home w/ Layla taking care of her and the house. And if you haven't guessed it, yes I'm a housedad! I take care of the chores and kid while my wife works. And no, I'm not doing this by choice (well yeah I am, but not the one most people think).  We made this choice because its too expensive to have Layla at day care and I'm not working yet. And taking a part-time bullshit job to help out isn't what you'd call helping! The money you make goes to day care and and transportation while the leftovers go to food for the week if any's left at all! 

While I don't mind being a stay-at-home dad and watch my daughter grow up in front of me, I still feel like I'm missing out because The money my wife makes is enough for the major bills, groceries, and some odds and ends for Layla! If it weren't for my drill weekends I wouldn't have new clothes or be able to treat my daughter to something nice every once and awhile! 

I'm just puttin this out there for those going thru what I'm in right now! 

Shit is real son!  But we gotta keep it movin!

White Privilege and the 2008 Election by Tim Wise

Before you read this, please know it was not the intent of myself or the author to make all whites out to be racist, but show how some can look the other way when one of their own is doing something stupid/wrong and another race or political party is doing something right or not up to their standards.

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fu*kin’ redneck," like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll "kick their fu*kin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot sh*t" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re "untested."

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it’s good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn’t added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don’t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a "second look."

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn’t support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.

White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O’Reilly means you’re dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it, a "light" burden.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren’t sure about that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it’s just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1755

The Sexy Ladies of the G4 Network

Sup people,

I fig'd I put these ladies up in all their sexy glory to showcase their more "natural" talents since usually they tend to keep covered up. I think their all sexy in their own way from their looks to their different personalities and it shows! My wife a probably hate me for this.....but fuck it, my blog my posts feel me!!!! 

So here they are!

Layl Keighley

Oliva Munn

Kristen Holt

Morgan Webb

Well like I said, their "natural" talents just shine through and brighten these pages up don't they!

Just Checkin in...

A couple months ago I got back into reading comics. And now that I'm older I find my tastes have grown into more a mature nature. I got a tip from that chick on G4 about this one comic I've just started reading called the walking dead! 

This comic series is something truely amazing! Its everything I always wanted and more. Zombies, post-apocalyptic struggle and survival, mature subject matter w/ logically thinking charcters, and GORE, lots of it! Don't get me wrong I love my ole' spidey and wolverine comics along with their superhero cousins, but this one just took me to a whole 'nother level. Suffice it to say It might be better than The Watchmen with its great charcter development and ever changing protagonist Rick and crew ahveing to fend off zombies, other rival groups of not so nice humans and each other! It makes for great entertainment! Especially since I find myself less and less watching the idiot box unless there's a new episode of the Venture Bros, but since that season finally ended there's been nothing to fill that void!

Aside from that, I found out Apple has a new verison of its nano and touch lines. I love the new touch and will probably cop one in the near future, but the nano, looks like a generic verison of its self! I don't really like the elongated rectangle shape, but I do like that they've lowered the prices on all of their lines. Also the addition of the new headphones w/ the built in remote and mic look officicial.

Where My Brothers and Sisters At?

I read an article in game informer one day about the need to have new genres and inside those genres new heroes and villians. Its appeal to me was its idea of bringing in something fresh and unused by the masses. 

So with that Idea I bring up where are my brothers and sisters in any of these genres! I meanthe one or two games that come out w/ blacks as the protagonist are just that ONE or TWO! 

I sent a letter to the editor with a question of why can't we see more of black people in games aside from the sterotypical gnagster, athelete, or choice in create a player! Why couldn't Kratos have been black! Why couldn't the lead in gears be black in stead of a subordinate (Shout out to Terrible Terry Tate - You can't make a pass and pinch pablo's ass, those old school rules baby!) But I digress, I don't want to make this a "all developers are white so their racist or just imagining what they would like to see isssue" While those issues might be cause there not the only factor! Demographic research would show an even percentage of races that play almost every type of game genre! So Why aren't we represented more to make an equal play across the board! I mean in heavenly sword why couldn't the heroine be a Nigierian princess! Or have Dante or Nero be Black with no bald head or afro or crazy ass hairstyle that wesley snipes got from the demolition man.  

I'm jsut tired of always playing as a white/japanesse dude! I hope developers don't think this is some racist rant cause it isn't, its just equality trying to break thru! 

I will say this, were in the right step w/ Afro Samurai,......... we just need more of it!

Sumthin New for Me

Hey world, I fig'd since everybody and their gynacologyst was doin this I might as well give it a shot! A lil' about myself would be Husband, Father, Soldier and Friend! I'm a housedad by choice and a hero for hire so get at me! Aside from helping my baby girl Layla grow, doing house chores, and being a quality husband I'm trying to get certified in the IT field. I also enjoy playing on my xbox 360 online or offline and diggin in somebody's ass in a round of Rainbow 6! 

Aside from that I like to think I'm no different than any other mild mannered mofo out here in the world!  

So w/o further BS lets get to it, feel free to post and comment, Get wit me!