Exclusive Interview with Fidel Castro

p0nk: Fidel-meister! So how are you really doing? You know the media is saying you're on your last breath?
Fidel: p0nkster, damn the media I say, do you have paparazzi in the States? I swear these people stalk me just to slam me. Yesterday I was training for the Iron Man competition - you like this jogging outfit? Lance Armstrong gave it to me for my birthday...
p0nk: Looks like you've been putting it to good use. I see it has the monogram C.C. on it.
Fidel: yes, Lance told me it stood for Captain Castro. That douchebag, I told him i was a general.
p0nk: So apparently the rumors aren't true about you dying anytime soon.
Fidel: anytime soon? Hell no, I'm going to live forever. I was talking to my "leetle friend", Kim Jong Il - he loves it when i call him that - I asked him how his dad pulled off the immortality bit, so yeah, we got a plan all worked out. I'm going to take a low profile, y'know. Raoul will make all the public appearances, but I'll really be the one behind the scenes pulling the strings.
p0nk: You think Raoul's capable of filling your shoes?
Fidel: He fills my ass pretty adequately, wait what do you mean?
p0nk: Don't worry, i won't print that. I meant, is he capable of leading Cuba?
Fidel: He'll do fine once he gets his feet wet. He needs to get his dick wet too. Seriously, it's not like the old days, p0nkster, when you and Che and I were livin' the vida loca - HaHaHaHa i still remember that time you put the exlax in Che's Guatemalan coffee. Ol 'Doc' Che was pretty sure he was dying of dysentery - hey speaking of dysentery, what the hell has happened to Nicole Richie? That little slut used to give me some serious wood.
p0nk: um yeh, so Raoul needs to get his feet wet, maybe you could explain what you have in mind?
Fidel: I said he needs to get his dick wet. I was talking to my buddy Hugo Chavez -you remember Hugo, down in Venezuela?- Anyway, he said he put a plan in motion to send some Brazilian hottie up here for Raoul, y'know, give him some self-confidence. Once he grows a pair, I'm sure Raoul will do fine.
p0nk: You know, there's going to be some disappointed people in Miami if you don't die.
Fidel: You crazy Americans, you always wait until people die before you celebrate them. Look at the whole MLK thing. What's up with that? Hell, we celebrate Fidel Castro day in Cuba every day.
p0nk: hmm good point. So any last words you want me to pass along?
Fidel: Tell that fucker, Che, to write once in a while. It's been ages since I've heard from him.
p0nk: umm, Che's been dead for quite a while.
Fidel: Ha, you people really fell for that one eh? I bet you still think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone... man, you people kill me...well not literally... you know what I mean.
p0nk: yeh, so anyway, i don't have a way of getting in touch with Che, anybody else?
Fidel: actually yes. Please tell Anna Nicole, that I'm flattered, but I'm really not the marrying type. and that I had a vasectomy years ago, I'm definitely not the baby's father.
p0nk: OK, i will see that she gets that message. Thank you for enlightening us today.

OK So It's Not Viet Nam

Bill O'Reilly likes to go after people who criticize our occupation of Iraq by asking them "Do you want America to win the war in Iraq?"
People balk at this question, but O'Reilly pushes them, "It's a simple 'yes' or 'no' answer."
Mr. O'Reilly, with all due respect, I beg to differ. If the current hot issue was racism and I asked you, "Do you want the North to win the Civil War?", would you give me a 'yes' or 'no' answer? No, you would tell me 1) the Civil War is already over and the North won and 2) the Civil War was not about racism.
So now I will answer your question Mr. O'Reilly. 1) America and Coalition forces won the war in Iraq. 2) The war in Iraq was not about terrorism.
The real issue here is whether or not the US should keep an occupation force in Iraq during their civil war in order to affect an outcome that will be favorable to US investment interests.
Freaks with AK-47s and RPGs in Iraq don't terrorize me much. And before anyone suggests that these same freaks will soon escalate their terror if left alone, let me add that they can do no such thing if we cut off their source. If we are really concered about terror let's go after the source instead of losing fingers in the proverbial dike.

a lil Lizzy

NightLife (1974)
01 She Knows
02 Night Life
03 It's Only Money
04 Still In Love With You
05 Frankie Carroll
06 Showdown
07 Banshee
08 Philomena
09 Sha-La-La
10 Dear Heart
Fighting (1975)
01 Rosalie
02 For Those Who Love to Live
03 Suicide
04 Wild One
05 Fighting My Way Back
06 King's Vengeance
07 Spirit Slips Away
08 Silver Dollar
09 Freedom Song
10 Ballad of a Hard Man
JailBreak (1976)
01 Jailbreak
02 Angel from the Coast
03 Running Back
04 Romeo and the Lonely Girl
05 Warriors
06 The Boys are Back in Town
07 Fight or Fall
08 Cowboy Song
09 Emerald
Johnny The Fox (1976)
01 Johnny
02 Rocky
03 Borderline
04 Don't Believe a Word
05 Fools Gold
06 Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed
07 Old Flame
08 Massacre
09 Sweet Marie
10 Boogie Woogie Dance
Bad Reputation (1977)
01 Soldier of Fortune
02 Bad Reputation
03 Opium Trail
04 South bound
05 Dancing in the Moonlight (It's caught me in its spotlight)
06 Killer Without a Cause
07 Downtown Sundown
08 That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart
09 Dear Lord
Live & Dangerous (1978)
01 Jailbreak
02 Emerald
03 Southbound
04 Rosalie/Cowgirl's Song
05 Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me In its Spotlight)
06 Massacre
07 Still in Love with You
08 Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed
09 Cowboy Song
10 The Boys are Back in Town
11 Don't Believe a Word
12 Warrior
13 Are you Ready
14 Suicide
15 Sha-La-La
16 Baby Drives Me Crazy
17 The Rocker
Black Rose (1979)
01 Do Anything You Want To
02 Toughest Street in Town
03 S & M
04 Waiting for an Alibi
05 Sarah
06 Got to Give it Up
07 Get Out of Here
08 With Love
09 Roisin Dubh (Black Rose)

Packing It Up

"This is the End...The End my friend..." Jim Morrison
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Pelosi--Mother, Grandmother, Speaker, VeggieTale

Somebody's PR is going a little too far in trying to portray new Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, as reaching out to conservative moms. Pelosi herself tried really hard in her (albeit awkward) opening remarks as she took the gavel, even inviting children to come forward and touch her coveted phallic symbol.
It's going to be a tough sale, but Pelosi is apparently pulling out all the stops as she tries to disguise herself as one of the VeggieTales.

Pelosi's new image as Italian Catholic mom -- more than a 'San Francisco liberal'

Pelosi--Mother, Grandmother, Speaker

The Prostitution of Corporate America

An interesting story at USA Today (When failure's worth $200M, something's out of whack) does a pretty good job addressing an issue that has been on my mind lately.

There is a contagious disease spreading throughout business practices from Fortune 500 companies to public high schools. Screw the "Golden Parachute", give me the "Golden Corporate Jet"! Top administrators in organizations big or small are being handed huge 'bonuses' for their failures.
I'm a bit more cynical than the USA Today columnist. I see two reasons that this practice exists.
1.) It's cheaper than litigation. Let's face it, getting canned because you suck at your job is a slap in the face. Top administrators, being the ego-maniacs that landed them the job in the first place, are not going to let that kind of insult go unchallenged. Lawsuit! Lawsuit! Lawsuit! and why not, they've got the money to throw at it and there are plenty of lawyers willing to take it on. Win or lose, organizations do not want to spend the resources fighting it in court, so the idea is to simply pay them off as they leave.
2.) It's all about mutual back scratching. It's not the average joe that makes these decisions, it's other execs. Execs want to keep this practice going for when it's their turn in the hot seat.

So why does any of this matter? It matters because American society is losing it's middle class. We're becoming like a caste system. A person's value is not based on their performance or skills but on their self-perpetuating social(?) standing. This is completely contrary to the concept of 'hard work pays off'. If you're a hard-working blue collar, your reward is being shit on by execs. If you're an incompetent exec, you are rewarded at the expense of the workers. If the political conservatives don't get ahold of this soon, the masses of working class will continue to lean toward socialistic democratic policies which will bankrupt us.
After all, this same practice goes on in politics too.

still got the blues.

I snagged 17 Robert Cray albums over the weekend. Why? Because I wanted something new and I was feeling in a 'bluesy' mood. Even though it's been a very mild winter, I'm the kind of person that ought to go into hibernation in late fall and wake up in spring.
I'd write more but I think i want to take a nap instead.