tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265952642024-03-12T21:20:57.776-04:00Biochemical SlangHip Hop's Seeds & Hood TRUTH Soldiersvikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-42468845672614677432007-06-16T13:00:00.001-04:002007-06-16T13:23:05.829-04:00Guess Who's Bizzack?!?!??<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1lHxNXdDYH9HYsHqYvuuq4TNxbw7v1EoYVwb8dusOUihoSTdn88yuC9M1vm-mr2f5QFLlJhQRg6YFGATNzvCWz7fkMQ15tYrxevIvbGZQf716Rp3m1tpNK8SagLLJ6t1VFIHPaw/s1600-h/summertime_beer.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1lHxNXdDYH9HYsHqYvuuq4TNxbw7v1EoYVwb8dusOUihoSTdn88yuC9M1vm-mr2f5QFLlJhQRg6YFGATNzvCWz7fkMQ15tYrxevIvbGZQf716Rp3m1tpNK8SagLLJ6t1VFIHPaw/s400/summertime_beer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076708535187235186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">It's SUMMERTIME. And the livin' is easy. Relatively speaking.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Yeah, there's still rent, bills, air conditioner eff ups, your nasty neighbors, and THE MAN. But eff it. It's summertime and the livin' is EASY. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Now that our exams are over (temporarily), Biochemical Slang is back on its grizzly. <span style="font-style: italic;">Supremacy: watch your back. The truth is out there.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Biochemical Slang wants to know: WHERE THE EFF WOULD WE BE WITHOUT MUSIC? Can you imagine life without a soundtrack? Me neither. It's summertime, SNITCHES!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">The Originals - <a href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/22997780343ce7/">Sunrise</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Al Green - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/22991286e67d54/">Summertime</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Sam & Dave - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/2299421d34ad20/">Summertime</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Sam Cooke - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/22992937750711/">Summertime</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">The Isley Brothers - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/22994488fc7b0e/">Summer Breeze</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXTRmQrUvZYqvG5skiMgvpE_jBxWBFrWnxAbzSJUnJ8ACh4uuSBvyE75ck9x5LzX4Y42_GDlRmHZM4JatjyLoobxpHiAEgb2PpZAGFZ0ZFUWQEBdVqpOyRqYCQUne7X1D8iFntw/s1600-h/summer.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXTRmQrUvZYqvG5skiMgvpE_jBxWBFrWnxAbzSJUnJ8ACh4uuSBvyE75ck9x5LzX4Y42_GDlRmHZM4JatjyLoobxpHiAEgb2PpZAGFZ0ZFUWQEBdVqpOyRqYCQUne7X1D8iFntw/s400/summer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076708414928150882" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Millie Jackson - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/229915416fe980/">Summer (the first time)</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Jack McDuff - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/2299386376651b/">Summer Dream</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Ice Cube - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/22994972e409a3/">My Summer Vacation</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">The Specials - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/2299488bfd9229/">Too Hot</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Jay-Z - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/2299356a00e660/">Dear Summer</a></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-60593734341736836252007-06-12T11:19:00.001-04:002007-06-12T11:35:34.070-04:00I Can ALMOST See the...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpy1raBwQs9mCC0Lj1ce_2IM3rHreWnqv5vfLgowXqAeWZxYeX4rb7NYgzoKltJ5PDA9XGYXmdIZUkHa8I0lPpCFvRCO92IYg3dpOiesevOXClA59jiJdywsFd-ZrsFupbFHZsZA/s1600-h/hope.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpy1raBwQs9mCC0Lj1ce_2IM3rHreWnqv5vfLgowXqAeWZxYeX4rb7NYgzoKltJ5PDA9XGYXmdIZUkHa8I0lPpCFvRCO92IYg3dpOiesevOXClA59jiJdywsFd-ZrsFupbFHZsZA/s400/hope.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075198334491648338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">...the light? The end? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">June 14th is just around the corner. That means Biochemical Slang will be back in business. That also means Vik gets to return to the REAL WORLD. Apparently, even as you ignore the world, time STILL MOVES FORWARD.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">HOLLA at Biochemical Slang at CENTRAL PARK on June 16th. The </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.summerstage.org/index1.aspx?BD=19724">legendary TELEVISION</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> is playing what is rumored to be their last show. For those that don't know, it's BIGGER than just hip-hop. Remember: </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://biochemicalslang.blogspot.com/2007/03/hip-hop-is-rock-n-roll-rock-n-roll-is.html">Hip-hop is rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is hip-hop</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. Eff the music separatists. They have no idea what they're missing.</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL6ZPiTL3F5tSzg4ysYuitmuFY05RZlzgnCEK234QjYmwaK3LP3pLGnb_tzP2cVTzWACWqmUslMk-M9qS5ng8mIv9LGdaHGun2H1TM5igjXtHr9hn8qZUXw54JH8khcf4Ai8lFTw/s1600-h/tv.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL6ZPiTL3F5tSzg4ysYuitmuFY05RZlzgnCEK234QjYmwaK3LP3pLGnb_tzP2cVTzWACWqmUslMk-M9qS5ng8mIv9LGdaHGun2H1TM5igjXtHr9hn8qZUXw54JH8khcf4Ai8lFTw/s400/tv.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075198209937596738" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">As if you don't already know, Biochemical Slang will be in the building for the hip-hop event of the summer (it helps that this is a free show, eff </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.rockthebells.net/">Rock the Bells</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> expensive-sold-out-ish), the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.brooklynbodega.com/brooklynhiphopfestival.htm">Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2viWQxlq8PJQI8U15_x9UZI3fn8TjXRXOUIKZEdI2IZli0CBQc9eYPmrB0rVcq9THV64hggoYJuLOeXGEFXjW1QrwMV8o9LmM7bfO2Po74zBW7Cd44EP3har_OkKB0DzzSC6Mw/s1600-h/brooooklllyyynnn.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2viWQxlq8PJQI8U15_x9UZI3fn8TjXRXOUIKZEdI2IZli0CBQc9eYPmrB0rVcq9THV64hggoYJuLOeXGEFXjW1QrwMV8o9LmM7bfO2Po74zBW7Cd44EP3har_OkKB0DzzSC6Mw/s400/brooooklllyyynnn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075198072498643250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">For those that have no money, SUMMERTIME in NYC is a great place to be. </span><br /></span><ul style="font-family: arial;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.summerstage.org/">Central Park SUMMERSTAGE</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://celebratebrooklyn.com/celebrate/default.asp">Celebrate BROOKLYN!</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.brooklynconcerts.com/mlk.html">Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.summerstage.org/index1.aspx?BD=20011">CityParks Concert Series</a></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BIOCHEMICAL SLANG: Livin' ain't free, but it doesn't have to be expensive. Holla!</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-7174944348176804132007-06-03T07:51:00.000-04:002007-06-03T08:06:23.781-04:00Don't Let the.....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFsCi8tqNr0AAZml17NC5_jc1atzMbbb0Ot5OeA897l9O1oEB6b7XVFVC2kmazh3A3IpRXSJBgaRB2tpaH1rReypjrI6KBj1HrYwodokTKsrAA7t7-wehgNVlPHAJ7Tzk36whkg/s1600-h/dudes.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFsCi8tqNr0AAZml17NC5_jc1atzMbbb0Ot5OeA897l9O1oEB6b7XVFVC2kmazh3A3IpRXSJBgaRB2tpaH1rReypjrI6KBj1HrYwodokTKsrAA7t7-wehgNVlPHAJ7Tzk36whkg/s400/dudes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071804760856616850" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/2124491f24f40c/">DON'T LET THE JONESES GET YOU DOWN</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> - The Temptations</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Joneses? They're the <span style="font-weight: bold;">LAST</span> of my worries. You know how it is. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Temptations need to update this track for the 2-double-0-seven. The Joneses have been coastin' for years.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Long live <del>SUPREMACY</del> ACADEMIA!</span></span><br /><object width="310" height="255"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DkMD2fqfCfA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DkMD2fqfCfA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="310" height="255"></embed></object>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-26887530788769214562007-05-23T13:57:00.000-04:002007-05-23T14:01:12.347-04:00I Don't Want to Become...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoRbuQau1u2ar9iqgkIU1Aptbyzg4-ckvHdgX0KgfR_M4Ja1gPCWRjuC2FZ17prFHZw44YsIIULzMttqiACiqS5xuIS9Oo40-rGAt1Nf3L1jlLxoj-3lXW0LfqSBhvegFMb8eWQ/s1600-h/nr.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoRbuQau1u2ar9iqgkIU1Aptbyzg4-ckvHdgX0KgfR_M4Ja1gPCWRjuC2FZ17prFHZw44YsIIULzMttqiACiqS5xuIS9Oo40-rGAt1Nf3L1jlLxoj-3lXW0LfqSBhvegFMb8eWQ/s400/nr.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067817144270443746" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">...THIS GUY.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">So please bear with me as I prepare to take my BOARD EXAMS. Updates will be less frequent until June 14th.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Be sure to visit my Internets family, located to your right.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-41949102303298411332007-05-21T08:25:00.001-04:002007-05-21T08:46:24.809-04:00A Birthday THEY Want YOU to Forget About<span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCAmnBxmRetwxE6IykZcivHLYJfBurbAvH0zO7nRKvzbbHklYnPz0VxmJNmJ9ErEeHrCeun1pa-UpUqVZncMOFrblL7K8-iNxfz6Zt7hl9ng7ZlXGciCGMJVvrIwRfbKltN9W4Q/s1600-h/malcolm.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCAmnBxmRetwxE6IykZcivHLYJfBurbAvH0zO7nRKvzbbHklYnPz0VxmJNmJ9ErEeHrCeun1pa-UpUqVZncMOFrblL7K8-iNxfz6Zt7hl9ng7ZlXGciCGMJVvrIwRfbKltN9W4Q/s400/malcolm.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066989413878191314" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Keith LeBlanc (feat Malcolm X) - </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/keith-leblanc-feat-malcolm-x-no-sell-out-mp3.html">NO SELL OUT</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Donny Hathaway - </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/donny-hathaway-someday-well-all-be-free-mp3.html">Someday We'll All Be Free</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Above image courtesy of the "</span><a style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/home.php">Official Malcom X Website</a><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Did you know that this past Saturday was Malcolm X's 82nd birthday? If not, I can empathize. There were no flags-at-half-mast. No video montages on the local news. No words of remembrance from our "civil rights leaders." No official national recognition. Just another Saturday. It even momentarily slipped under the radar screen, here at Biochemical Slang.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Eff supremacy. I'll be confident that supremacy is loosening it's grip around my neck when my government, at the very least, acknowledges the existence of Malcolm X. Every yin needs a yang. Every Martin needs a Malcolm. Turn the other cheek, with a clenched fist in your pocket. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Believe it or not, the hippies may be ahead of the game with this one. Believe it or not, Berkeley city offices were CLOSED in recognition of "</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/communitycalendar/holidays.html">Malcolm X Day</a><span style="font-family: arial;">:"</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rCud79UIfjQoFIQjFkCOryUqt4tUlbr7bkmmwXu45oNC2G_czI8B2F13xGh7wcquh2E3kikKUsCho0x-h-jmnXgMiqBd3wrEQSMCBQeQkgmW56m5zCcMosU5dBwUldrp1O6skA/s1600-h/malcolm2.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rCud79UIfjQoFIQjFkCOryUqt4tUlbr7bkmmwXu45oNC2G_czI8B2F13xGh7wcquh2E3kikKUsCho0x-h-jmnXgMiqBd3wrEQSMCBQeQkgmW56m5zCcMosU5dBwUldrp1O6skA/s400/malcolm2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066989297914074306" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2007/05/14/n/HeadlineNews/OFFICES-CLOSED/resources_bcn_html">It's a START</a>. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">What was goin' on closer to home? The <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=465165529f184f39&ei=AJRRRoK1H4_ooALYt-zLAw&url=http%3A//nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/05/86417.shtml&cid=1116485841">Harlem H & M closed</a> on Saturday. It's SOMETHING, right?!?</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-45881737384880818382007-05-20T01:15:00.000-04:002007-05-20T09:45:49.261-04:00Pictures that Speak MORE than a Thousand Words<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP8rb9CnixFKzxf4HGrfMe81iY9yRvc_-iTVWS3ft9KDvGKNAcVfwdK7T0DEXPREKt_0Hnof3HYEVeisSOfJJ8m9nI-pKlhXwuJ6vHtnU40ekYQWnfkd33cvJXjYQUP6qcRfbIDQ/s1600-h/af1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP8rb9CnixFKzxf4HGrfMe81iY9yRvc_-iTVWS3ft9KDvGKNAcVfwdK7T0DEXPREKt_0Hnof3HYEVeisSOfJJ8m9nI-pKlhXwuJ6vHtnU40ekYQWnfkd33cvJXjYQUP6qcRfbIDQ/s400/af1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066507875029865650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/roy-ayers-ill-just-keep-tryin-mp3.html">I'll Just KEEP Tryin'</a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > - Roy Ayers</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Supremacy still lives! Did you notice the dude's broken graduated cylinder? Peep the following quote from </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/world/africa/20senegal.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin">this</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> article:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"Africa’s best universities, the grand institutions that educated a revolutionary generation of nation builders and statesmen, doctors and engineers, writers and intellectuals, are collapsing. It is partly a self-inflicted crisis of mismanagement and neglect, but it is also the result of international development policies that for decades have favored basic education over higher learning even as a population explosion propels more young people than ever toward the already strained institutions."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">While we bicker about immigration reform and nappy-headed-hos, these students are sleeping on floors, working multiple jobs, and getting up before the sun rises. For what? AN EDUCATION. When those same students land on OUR shores and take YOUR jobs, don't say that we didn't warn you. They WILL come. They won't have much, but they'll have DEGREES. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Or maybe we could prepare our children for the competition that they will face by investing more of our time, money, and cultural weight in education. Or maybe we could just </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070517-5.html">bicker over what to do with those damn landscapers</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. </span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvMcLXFLqRKSI2btQND_P_k618DmkPDznxBLZkSMcVyYPzlRL5SDvRK8BRXqBKVRq3AzdiPh5h4C4uI79cwlHWPukbjjogBoTOOqyLV7aRf3Q9iXNtGS0fRo3d7hcK9UdNzkADw/s1600-h/ag.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvMcLXFLqRKSI2btQND_P_k618DmkPDznxBLZkSMcVyYPzlRL5SDvRK8BRXqBKVRq3AzdiPh5h4C4uI79cwlHWPukbjjogBoTOOqyLV7aRf3Q9iXNtGS0fRo3d7hcK9UdNzkADw/s400/ag.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066507750475814050" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/it-aint-rainin-on-nobodys-house-but-mine-the-dramatics-mp3.html">It Ain't Rainin' On Nobody's House But Mine</a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > - The Dramatics</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This Dramatics song is THE soundtrack for that picture of Alberto. Poor dude is learning the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/18/AR2007051801969.html">G DUBBZ administration's meaning of the word affirmative action</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDVpDklMNJy21scM1jka95da08rjFpOY5ycyBlYq01bJu3mAdHH7tpmE3x-Dnoq95EgKoerHYmyg6ubzFTsv8nR9bwbquEx83f5uESC_4Xvf86cWIVSjz6Xn8EEYsqiFykdsWxw/s1600-h/dude.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDVpDklMNJy21scM1jka95da08rjFpOY5ycyBlYq01bJu3mAdHH7tpmE3x-Dnoq95EgKoerHYmyg6ubzFTsv8nR9bwbquEx83f5uESC_4Xvf86cWIVSjz6Xn8EEYsqiFykdsWxw/s400/dude.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066507527137514642" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/mr-cool-rasputins-stash-mp3-39e.html">Mr. Cool</a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > - Rasputin's Stash</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Believe it or not, Estonia is one of the most wired nations in the world. Believe it or not, this dude is an officer in the country's </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/18/AR2007051802122.html">Computer Emergency Response Team</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. Did dude find the blogger dream job? A real job, with GULLYNESS factor and real money, all while living in his mother's basement? Baaaaalliiinnnn! Dude found the blogger wet dream. Nullus.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-16083234903397970532007-05-19T09:02:00.000-04:002007-05-19T09:09:54.523-04:00How do we fight CRIME in NYC?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXlHO70-swN-SDkIXVgvjQZm_tJDx-qgwvKiqYk3ioxs-8x2VJlBVZuMNG725SZBmtDHCf9zqt69jDJHMF7iPw7ak0NVj7brZDG7aqYVc8L2L8nQ9pwf5RvHLxTTjuNCFgdkynsg/s1600-h/segway.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXlHO70-swN-SDkIXVgvjQZm_tJDx-qgwvKiqYk3ioxs-8x2VJlBVZuMNG725SZBmtDHCf9zqt69jDJHMF7iPw7ak0NVj7brZDG7aqYVc8L2L8nQ9pwf5RvHLxTTjuNCFgdkynsg/s400/segway.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066256658097755266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">One <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/nyregion/17police.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin">SEGWAY</a> at a time, snitches!</span><br /><br />The NYPD is for the people.<br /><br />Say, "Hi, how ya doing, officer?" as they roll by.<br /><br />I can't make this stuff up, people.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/respiration-remix-mp3.html">RESPIRATION</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> (Pete Rock Remix) - Black Star (feat Black Thought)</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-79252431174162852762007-05-17T20:00:00.000-04:002007-05-17T20:18:21.668-04:00An Open Letter to the Government of China, from Ira Newble and Colleagues<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSKuPYaoeejEqAIDSJxA9V20apsMRqeT6SFKGFh1x3irdox_Jz6va0Mc17wUzWKxraGCxxnCRDGpWaq3US8zuebacoI3VyWZcfaDuW1Q2LvSsnwMI2-t1XY71kEvzqMDDyxiuWg/s1600-h/darf_nba.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSKuPYaoeejEqAIDSJxA9V20apsMRqeT6SFKGFh1x3irdox_Jz6va0Mc17wUzWKxraGCxxnCRDGpWaq3US8zuebacoI3VyWZcfaDuW1Q2LvSsnwMI2-t1XY71kEvzqMDDyxiuWg/s400/darf_nba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065684336525694066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">FINALLY. People are beginning to take </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/117878622745100.xml&coll=2">some sort of stance</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Yeah, people are still dying OVER THERE. Yes, China STAYS POURING MONEY into Sudan. Yes, China is hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Biochemical Slang is here to remind you: </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/">History REPEATS itself</a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Major props goes to Ira Newble for spearheading the "Bring the Olympic Dream to Darfur" campaign. Major anti-props go to </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_soshnick&sid=a_dZUn_IWXEk">LeBron James and Damon Jones</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> for NOT SIGNING the above letter.<br /><br />Apparently, Damon Jones has to make sure one of his sponsors, Li-Ning Sports Goods Co. Ltd., stays happy.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> The people of Darfur? Not so much.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-82696156301506262742007-05-16T14:44:00.000-04:002007-05-16T15:01:42.768-04:00Can You IMAGINE??!?!?!!!??<span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1gePVtcLFVp82Wp8xrLOmetYLQomLSE_gD_iVMIDyhLJil6PKtymvNp82zP61IYdlDFfNAUhDtnBjY0Br2PhHALmRplumWyMthKb3biegem1UR0jGOqVrU8hJINUK1dmj546rQ/s1600-h/imagine.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1gePVtcLFVp82Wp8xrLOmetYLQomLSE_gD_iVMIDyhLJil6PKtymvNp82zP61IYdlDFfNAUhDtnBjY0Br2PhHALmRplumWyMthKb3biegem1UR0jGOqVrU8hJINUK1dmj546rQ/s400/imagine.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065231681332434018" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Nas - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/04-i-gave-you-power-mp3-ab9.html">I Gave You Power</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Damian Marley - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/damian-marley-it-was-written-mp3.html">It Was Written</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Can you imagine a NEW YORK CITY without guns? Can you imagine a PHILADELPHIA, an OAKLAND, or an EAST ST. LOUIS without guns? Probably not.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">How sad is that? It's like guns have become a part of our fabric of reality. Woven into our collective consciousness, to the point that the world seems strange without them. How odd would it be to turn on the local late night news program and NOT hear about GUNS? Exactly.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Can you imagine a MOGADISHU without guns?</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFKjMAgahnd8iE5Sc6shY5RVFXNVJDp6Rbh9Fe4Fi-4Ur5mScHb3oeoWkeCc2AjbntRzFSVlJ2HGb-XyWnBk-Q85ai9aGRsplY0NTICPIpRCYKqU9jd6B8-sjtEAnScnRbOU5P5Q/s1600-h/somali5.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFKjMAgahnd8iE5Sc6shY5RVFXNVJDp6Rbh9Fe4Fi-4Ur5mScHb3oeoWkeCc2AjbntRzFSVlJ2HGb-XyWnBk-Q85ai9aGRsplY0NTICPIpRCYKqU9jd6B8-sjtEAnScnRbOU5P5Q/s400/somali5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065231556778382418" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1619557,00.html">Mohamed Dheere can</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. The new mayor of Mogadishu has OUTLAWED the ownership of guns, "The first thing I will do is to improve security. No weapons will be allowed to roam freely in the city and no guns will be fired." Is the man CRAZY? Obviously. Does the man have an <span style="font-weight: bold;">IMAGINATION</span>. Hell yes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">When's the last time WE could say we had a political leader with IMAGINATION?</span> With CHUTZPAH? With COJONES? Even Zubaz dared to be different.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">"There are so many places that so far have been searched and so many weapons unearthed. There is no exact figure or statistics on all the weapons that have so far been found," Interior Minister Mohamed Mahamud Guled said. Well, at the very least, it's a START. </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://biochemicalslang.blogspot.com/2007/05/who-protects-guns-from-us.html">We care more about our guns</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> than we care about our people!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The next time you hear of another senseless GUN murder, think of MOGADISHU. A Somalian Mayor dared to <span style="font-weight: bold;">IMAGINE</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">What is YOUR mayor doing</span>?!?!?!????!</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-7078901435969690132007-05-15T09:02:00.000-04:002007-05-15T09:15:03.207-04:00The Terrorists Have Already WON<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzPaA89qgR29lNmxNgdExfQ8MuEx8DefCWo4kd8i4Xexcgknm2GHmWEbE3c2m42WUy_SDQJt0axFr7q3-7UqSbAjOax9wb5W7uIvECmHgi0g1DOR6fElhAZ_EOLgaOeTW-ubLUw/s1600-h/stuck.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzPaA89qgR29lNmxNgdExfQ8MuEx8DefCWo4kd8i4Xexcgknm2GHmWEbE3c2m42WUy_SDQJt0axFr7q3-7UqSbAjOax9wb5W7uIvECmHgi0g1DOR6fElhAZ_EOLgaOeTW-ubLUw/s400/stuck.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064772601249566834" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Why should we invest in alternative fuel sources? To ensure a hospitable environment for our future generations? To become a more self-reliant people? To make us leave our houses using our TWO FEET, rather than an automobile? To improve our nation's air quality and, ultimately, our nation's health?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">No, no, no, and no. Why should we invest in alternative fuel sources? G DUBBZ had </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070514-4.html">this</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> to say: "Our dependence on oil creates a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">threat to America's national security</span><span style="font-family: arial;">, because it leaves us more vulnerable to hostile regimes, and to terrorists who could attack oil infrastructure."<br /><br />By Biochemical Slang's count:</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Fear tactics = 1,251.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The American People = 0.<br /><br />...and the GAMES continue.........<br /></span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-13789991473599764162007-05-14T07:21:00.000-04:002007-05-14T08:01:06.721-04:00The Hip-Hop Generation STILL Believes in Social Security<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRvxdJw4PQmd_Ymq_7xmvDG8SeBhVW4mWS0lfHJrxYAJy8kwwdwOgsresOBqp9r3AJ-MQVNeSANnXTqXcEf34dQYBGHVtsfkQLg8aLKz3wIo1DF98u7uJr-QYdyqTW8xGu3eHqg/s1600-h/investment.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRvxdJw4PQmd_Ymq_7xmvDG8SeBhVW4mWS0lfHJrxYAJy8kwwdwOgsresOBqp9r3AJ-MQVNeSANnXTqXcEf34dQYBGHVtsfkQLg8aLKz3wIo1DF98u7uJr-QYdyqTW8xGu3eHqg/s400/investment.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064375832170762338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Outkast - </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/12-git-up-git-out-mp3.html">Git Up, Git Out</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Buddy Miles - </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/buddy-miles-04-dreams-mp3.html">Dreams</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Special Ed - </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/12-special-ed-i-got-it-made-mp3.html">I Got it Made</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's be real. If you're in your teens and twenties, social security is an exercise in futility. It's something you just have to do. Just don't expect anything in return. NEWSFLASH: You're not gonna get anything back. You might as well deal with that fact NOW. Right NOW!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">If you're </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/MoneyInYour20s/YoungAdultsAllButIgnore401ksIRAs.aspx?GT1=10021&f=25&MSPPError=-2147197912">between the ages of 18 and 25</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, only 1 out of every 3 of you are electing to participate in your 401(k). Less than a third of you are participating in your company-sponsored retirement plans. Only 1 out of 25 of you are maxing out your workplace retirement plans. Only 1 out of 5 of you have a tax advantaged IRA . </span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7oXCVzndOgg9kKeMJIvD3-SF0cckPvuidxY3tPs35lMapW0ES4gWNzmjN0HtOMV4PNYP2G2W0WtTUZ3ZDKfkxcTaOuDM8hj9Ugmtwww6Pk-2S3az-Av1AA3lxQUmgnTzEUT9Qug/s1600-h/401k.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7oXCVzndOgg9kKeMJIvD3-SF0cckPvuidxY3tPs35lMapW0ES4gWNzmjN0HtOMV4PNYP2G2W0WtTUZ3ZDKfkxcTaOuDM8hj9Ugmtwww6Pk-2S3az-Av1AA3lxQUmgnTzEUT9Qug/s400/401k.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064375634602266706" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">You're living in your parent's basement! Do you really need those new kicks? Buying those new jeans on sale is not an investment plan! Downloading an album does NOT constitute a SAVINGS plan!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">While you're helping </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chief_executive_officers">THESE GUYS</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> with THEIR investment portfolios, what are YOU doing with yours?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">If you can WEAR your investment portfolio....YOU lose. If someone can SNATCH your portfolio while your not looking....YOU lose. If you can turn your portfolio on with a button or a KEY....YOU lose. If your money is only of the paper variety....YOU lose.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Tomorrow is just another day, isn't it?</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-30165331800398522192007-05-13T16:21:00.001-04:002007-05-13T16:21:56.909-04:00I Love this Game!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4tCTAtXX6-YXAjPXXYtQKiMnFpepDgHRof-1_MIp_4qR1cNqUJx0JQ8lGiZyO9Fqw7nEBcytOn_Hd0Hyvgmui95IvWwOvTyyaim0GJ5_SFEiXnk4sI3TvM-gM51F1SSu9lpm2w/s1600-h/baron_ak.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4tCTAtXX6-YXAjPXXYtQKiMnFpepDgHRof-1_MIp_4qR1cNqUJx0JQ8lGiZyO9Fqw7nEBcytOn_Hd0Hyvgmui95IvWwOvTyyaim0GJ5_SFEiXnk4sI3TvM-gM51F1SSu9lpm2w/s400/baron_ak.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064141004833853506" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Watch it </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYpwjB0IzoU">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Watch Baron Davis working at McDonalds </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqQiu4J1sms">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Was this a </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HEkglLVOU">TOP TEN</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> dunk?</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-49893259797376796702007-05-10T14:30:00.000-04:002007-05-10T14:30:05.061-04:00Who protects GUNS from US?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2FVo5lcDHTZCWv0meKft6U_aGd374Bvx1UrurZRCi7JrpTu5k0N-uDfa3Ik-Tc7jhy61LuTKaQ7KedXm39xJ-zigDiKtXVZ0ZvIIuiqGvNC0kTl9sJVPcJgxux8EfFrVB-oi_GQ/s1600-h/gun.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2FVo5lcDHTZCWv0meKft6U_aGd374Bvx1UrurZRCi7JrpTu5k0N-uDfa3Ik-Tc7jhy61LuTKaQ7KedXm39xJ-zigDiKtXVZ0ZvIIuiqGvNC0kTl9sJVPcJgxux8EfFrVB-oi_GQ/s400/gun.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062934681664393234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Pharoahe Monche - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/14-gun-draws-mp3-kha.html">Gun Draws</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Harlem River Drive - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/02-if-we-had-peace-today-mp3.html">If (We Had Peace Today)</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Bushwick Bill - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/09-dollars-and-sense-mp3.html">Dollars and Sense</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It's a testament to these days and times: GUNS have just about as many rights as we do. We all know that guns don't kill people. People WITH guns kill people. So, why not just make it more difficult to get a gun?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">If it were only so simple.</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFeAB__eRE-CoPki9BB_DfoVv6hq3O-34XyQCEbwqc6-OtXGAmUylKVgZ561ydq8dbK16O9eyI-pVFQ3rGEJQEDzB1PvEAjxeku34GbVITS9S_9YzG18woMv-RI8-IdmfybFP3EQ/s1600-h/gun_baby-money.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFeAB__eRE-CoPki9BB_DfoVv6hq3O-34XyQCEbwqc6-OtXGAmUylKVgZ561ydq8dbK16O9eyI-pVFQ3rGEJQEDzB1PvEAjxeku34GbVITS9S_9YzG18woMv-RI8-IdmfybFP3EQ/s400/gun_baby-money.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062934552815374338" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Here's how some politicians are trying to PROTECT YOUR GUNS:</span><br /></span><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Virginia Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902573.html?hpid=moreheadlines">warned New York to stop sending private law enforcement agents to Virginia to nab illegal gun dealers</a>. Apparently, many of the guns used in violent crimes in NYC can be traced to Virginia gun shows. "If anything, these [gun] dealers are the victims," replied the gun dealer's attorneys. When will we stop reading the 2nd Amendment OUT OF CONTEXT?<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Philadelphia, currently in the running for murder capital of America, has state gun laws WAITING to be passed. There's just one problem: they're <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18303108&BRD=2212&amp;amp;amp;PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">not being considered, due to the powerful state gun lobby</a>. Turns out, only the state legislature can OK gun laws. While 137 Philadelphians have been murdered, the state legislature is STILL sitting on these gun law proposals. In fact, the city of Philadelphia is suing the state of Pennsylvania for the rights to enact these gun laws and attempt to slow the ever-rising Philly murder rate.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">A federal appeals court in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09guns.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">Washington</a> refused yesterday to revisit a March decision striking down parts of a gun control law there. By my count: <span style="font-weight: bold;">2nd Amendment = 3, The People = 0</span>.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_XU8IMVJ7jeD04YTFMkI9NTMLPuRl38luv2GX_xNuanoIFrP7JlMnbUcTe2oNYHm-wNR_UP872PqrG_7YErMWkz_mdB34xCGGHsM7iRLbeyeD6ZEfCSGP1pxkULkZ_8ssGDtiw/s1600-h/monkey_gun_hellboy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_XU8IMVJ7jeD04YTFMkI9NTMLPuRl38luv2GX_xNuanoIFrP7JlMnbUcTe2oNYHm-wNR_UP872PqrG_7YErMWkz_mdB34xCGGHsM7iRLbeyeD6ZEfCSGP1pxkULkZ_8ssGDtiw/s400/monkey_gun_hellboy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062934402491518962" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In related news: before you </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/05/used_cd_sales_l.html">sell your USED CDs in Florida and Utah</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (and soon to be </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/05/florida_record_.html">Rhode Island and Wisconsin</a><span style="font-family:arial;">), you'll need to <span style="font-weight: bold;">present a driver's licence and be thumbprinted</span>. Furthermore, used CD stores and pawn shops in states that pass the law are also barred from paying cash for CDs, offering store credit instead, and must retain CDs for 30 days before reselling them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I WISH I was making this up</span>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Guns win.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-10438156210501746082007-05-09T08:35:00.000-04:002007-05-09T09:05:18.514-04:00MARKETING Runs This Rap Ish<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbgwZB56lxcGYcayMhOHG17CFysT_Y6MlVPbcErDUrm1tv-o5RGhXVZbV5YZGMxU55p1XI9LMkcn8P9pbfmE87Ut6RZgDG3rjwDfzqtPH2C9LNF_qlG4QhcJywkbmykGI6fpB8g/s1600-h/dutchmassa.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbgwZB56lxcGYcayMhOHG17CFysT_Y6MlVPbcErDUrm1tv-o5RGhXVZbV5YZGMxU55p1XI9LMkcn8P9pbfmE87Ut6RZgDG3rjwDfzqtPH2C9LNF_qlG4QhcJywkbmykGI6fpB8g/s400/dutchmassa.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062539050751922146" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Tupac - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/02-shorty-wanna-be-a-thug-mp3.html">Shorty Wanna Be A Thug</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Hank Crawford - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/hank_crawford-wildflower-mp3.html">Wildflower</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Ed OG - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/12-life-of-a-kid-in-the-ghetto-mp3.html">Life of a Kid in the Ghetto</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Donny Hathaway - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/05-little-ghetto-boy-mp3-144.html">Little Ghetto Boy</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"> (live)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I was walking home the other night and this little kid, looking smug as ever, pulled his Huffy up next to me. I'm not one of those kids-these-days type dudes, but I was expecting the little dude to get fresh. Maybe joke about my scuffed Stan Smiths.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Mind you, this kid wasn't more than ten. Eleven tops. "Hey! Can you buy me a VANILLA DUTCH at the store?"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">MARKETING works, people. Peep the following quote, from the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.altadisusa.com/company.asp">Altadis USA, Inc.</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> Sales and Marketing VP:</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwLb2imVJTj_-aj3ldJ7SPGFi0YCyqpTOY73MOPg1z3wtl1TPz9AVtU902JV06j_f8lI7czwi8pOaooWxCauckrDCjxWUlnN3AwfXkCtSWlF5Cu7vsYWAy58AQu9z1HcjXtG6xQ/s1600-h/lemmings_jc.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwLb2imVJTj_-aj3ldJ7SPGFi0YCyqpTOY73MOPg1z3wtl1TPz9AVtU902JV06j_f8lI7czwi8pOaooWxCauckrDCjxWUlnN3AwfXkCtSWlF5Cu7vsYWAy58AQu9z1HcjXtG6xQ/s400/lemmings_jc.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062538913312968658" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Who's ALTADIS, you ask? These dudes make CIGARS for the rest of the world, yet they make BLUNTS AND PHILLIES for their other </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">targeted demographics</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. They don't even have to lead us to the cliff. We know we've been targeted. We know we're merely a means to corporate profit. We know we're throwing our money away. Yet, we willingly jump off the cliff, the lemmings that we are.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's what they'll tell you: "</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >Phillies offers an extensive selection of fine cigars for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">value-conscious smoker</span> and has the perfect size, shape and blend to satisfy any taste."<br /><br />Here's what they MEANT to say: "Ni**ers buy anything, as long as we keep those rappers talking."<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-2-4eaMW8yGxY_HYhNrgaYKD8mTa2I_F1Fw410srHprB5KWXu4_YPiIpvsPqG_NLiRdIzhhIh3nsin8kWXhoBsfB0xQtrbMmkrmyNPtTJsWunmc81eCdZM6vVcY2uHHOzEH7ag/s1600-h/lemmings_doom.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-2-4eaMW8yGxY_HYhNrgaYKD8mTa2I_F1Fw410srHprB5KWXu4_YPiIpvsPqG_NLiRdIzhhIh3nsin8kWXhoBsfB0xQtrbMmkrmyNPtTJsWunmc81eCdZM6vVcY2uHHOzEH7ag/s400/lemmings_doom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062538831708590018" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">When the DRUG WAR hits YOUR STREET, Altadis will be too busy investing YOUR MONEY to give a shit. Yeah, they lost a customer to the prison system. Eff it, emulation of prison culture SELLS. That customer probably has kids. That customer's kids probably has friends. All those kids probably have no supervision. All those kids have money to burn. All those kids are willing to follow their friends off the cliff. All those kids are LEMMINGS.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">MARKETING runs this rap ish.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-56873234172512996642007-05-08T19:33:00.000-04:002007-05-08T19:52:39.060-04:00Fishbone is STILL Red Hot!<span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZSYmN_1nSjeNTLvTVljgI9_da2OZc132AgESKc0Xa6jiHtRV3dFvNczsofBHTz8pScXjfVgLf4hTOpAjzceXYiobaYStAmjAZkivfOw_8jqYjitVCxO6Lfxw9fMkWAZkiNheOEw/s1600-h/fishbone_redhott.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZSYmN_1nSjeNTLvTVljgI9_da2OZc132AgESKc0Xa6jiHtRV3dFvNczsofBHTz8pScXjfVgLf4hTOpAjzceXYiobaYStAmjAZkivfOw_8jqYjitVCxO6Lfxw9fMkWAZkiNheOEw/s400/fishbone_redhott.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062337423512211362" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" >Eff the <a href="http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=9895">SOAP OPERAS</a> that have become <a href="http://dallaspenn.com/weblog/?p=1669">modern day cRAP music</a>. Eff the radio stations that have become marketing pawns for the record companies. Eff corporate America for defining "urban" so precisely. If you don't fit the mold, you just don't fit in.<br /><br />Don't fret. FISHBONE is STILL red hot! Fishbone is still channeling Parliament's MOTHER SHIP. Fishbone is still shattering musical boundaries. Peep the best tracks of their (somewhat) new album <span style="font-style: italic;">Still Stuck in Your Throat</span>:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/09-behind-closed-doors-mp3.html">Behind Closed Doors</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/05-we-just-lose-our-minds-mp3.html">We Just Lose Our Minds</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/08-forever-moore-mp3.html">Forever Moore</a><br /><br />Eff the he-said-she-said Jim Jones/Cam'Ron we're not friends anymore NONSENSE. Peep Angelo Moore's wordplay from the track BEHIND CLOSED DOORS:<br /></span> <p style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Now if life was a thing that money could buy,<o:p></o:p><br />Then the rich man would make war and the poor man would fight.<o:p></o:p><br />The rich mother would pity while the poor mother would cry,<o:p></o:p><br />While the rich make excuses and the poor people die.<o:p><br /> </o:p><br />Type a thing make I wanna go run and hide,<o:p></o:p><br />Back to me condo over off of <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Rodeo Dr</st1:address></st1:Street>ive.<o:p></o:p><br />Grab a beer, try to remember a verse from the Bible,<o:p></o:p><br />Put on me Tivo and see who's off American Idol.</span></p>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-14407186720687931902007-05-08T07:46:00.000-04:002007-05-08T08:22:53.019-04:00Does that make US CRAZY?<span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3tnIFXEvLofVBb3sS-4dUCEDdBCtCSV9SWuo-Joz4BSr6rrAuKy8BHFvGjraf9e9PEgCC52jg64VFdWXjr3U7ZSadpc4XfJGRSc1tZerm0jK8IZIHnqUNQaH4BmduZHp4p8HnAQ/s1600-h/iraqsoldier.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3tnIFXEvLofVBb3sS-4dUCEDdBCtCSV9SWuo-Joz4BSr6rrAuKy8BHFvGjraf9e9PEgCC52jg64VFdWXjr3U7ZSadpc4XfJGRSc1tZerm0jK8IZIHnqUNQaH4BmduZHp4p8HnAQ/s400/iraqsoldier.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062155042020953986" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">At first, it seems like one of those studies with obvious conclusions: when soldiers experience lengthy and repeated tours of duty, they begin to </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/washington/06military.html?em&ex=1178596800&en=396d92592d942f7c&ei=5087%0A">suffer both mental and physical consequences</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Then we find out there's more: 30% of the troops in close combat missions are at increased risk for long-term mental and psychological problems. More than 40% of our troops support the idea of </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/05/study_finds_lapses_in_battlefield_ethics/">torture</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. More than 10% of our troops report harming Iraqi civilians and property, when it was not directly necessary. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Furthermore, we come to find out, this report came out in NOVEMBER. BEFORE the troop surge. If you don't release a report, it was never written. Of course, what is and was most US soldiers' primary concern? You guessed it: 40 percent of soldiers rated uncertain </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">redeployment</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> dates as a top concern. We're only PAWNS in THEIR game.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">It seems that soldier mental health and stability are issues that we've known about for quite some time. How do we plan on PREVENTING the increased mental health risks our soldier's carry? Intensive pre-service training? Fixing the Walter Reed veteran's health care clusterfuckery? Providing mental health care on site? Nah. "So the first step is that we've got to ... make sure that folks remember that that's a foundation for our moral compass ... anything we do that violates that is done at considerable peril," General </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/07/AR2007050700616.html">David Petraeus said</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. He's also "drafting a memo." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">When will moral compasses and memos CEASE to be our answer to everything?</span><br /></span><ul><li style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">When SUPREMACY <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/us/08deseg.html?hp">releases us from its relentless grip</a>.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">When the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/us/07levees.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">NOLA levees</a> are repaired and fully functional.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">When we stop calling our problems SILENT EPIDEMICS (check <a href="http://www.silentepidemic.org/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/thesilentepidemic/">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2108724/">here</a>) and START dealing with them.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When we stop </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/state/all-a10_phillyhead.5816464apr24,0,6303084.story">killing</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6480319">each</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> other.</span></span><br /></li></ul>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-86983347854812632302007-05-07T06:07:00.000-04:002007-05-07T06:37:16.300-04:00CALIFORNIA Re-Ups and Bonus Cuts<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVw_fmoNXxnYJ644j7W-cYsLNZF5qWAjHWg8y5BB8sPSPBjb7e7jVd7mc5bM3nmwtlD_GrE7o-psIAU_dhLDV2a6ZHsCCA3GkHqJ1BNhMs6zm_8A4oCGIWwObYVmcfMhlLmnY4TQ/s1600-h/goldenstate.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVw_fmoNXxnYJ644j7W-cYsLNZF5qWAjHWg8y5BB8sPSPBjb7e7jVd7mc5bM3nmwtlD_GrE7o-psIAU_dhLDV2a6ZHsCCA3GkHqJ1BNhMs6zm_8A4oCGIWwObYVmcfMhlLmnY4TQ/s400/goldenstate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061759797655539570" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Above image courtesy of </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.poplicks.com/">POPLICKS dot com</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Oliver Sain track courtesy of </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://jthymekind.blogspot.com/">JTHYME</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><br /><br />Biochemical Slang has been about the underdog since day one. Eff the favorite. Eff the predestined. Eff the expected. This also gives me a chance to RE-UP some California tracks and post some BONUS California tracks. Enjoy, snitches.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Edwin Starr - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/edwin-starr-10-california-soul-mp3.html">California Soul</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oliver Sain - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/07-california-sunset-mp3.html">California Sunset</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leon Ware - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/why-i-came-to-california-mp3-w02.html">Why I Came to California</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Main Ingredient - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/main-ingredient-california-my-way-mp3.html">California My Way</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">California Dreamin' - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/bobby-womack-california-dreamin-mp3.html">Bobby Womack</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">California Dreamin' - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/eddie-hazel-california-dreamin-mp3.html">Eddie Hazel</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">California Dreamin' - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/lee-moses-california-dreaming-mp3.html">Lee Moses</a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-z8b207gjcrtnmeflssX39Kyk5h83veaX_q7RohWPoEtJM5mG4okZ9UUWuS7Sl2I9-ls_QyL64TDl9j5dLMX8ZBHn9wtUxVCtPfLJqnbNKreoIf9whk3_zIwTrQstHO_KWEgvKg/s1600-h/davis.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-z8b207gjcrtnmeflssX39Kyk5h83veaX_q7RohWPoEtJM5mG4okZ9UUWuS7Sl2I9-ls_QyL64TDl9j5dLMX8ZBHn9wtUxVCtPfLJqnbNKreoIf9whk3_zIwTrQstHO_KWEgvKg/s400/davis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061759685986389858" border="0" /></a></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-33539928481693440892007-05-05T22:33:00.000-04:002007-05-05T22:45:10.458-04:00Pop Your Coronas, Snitches!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDz2fI7iYuD0d-Rq5uDLVZUYIreZGH8cfPfo0fMxZm3cKyQ304sZS1RaO_76ZHTZoM6Mh2t2f6mNJuPWaabXvxHmVU0yUc2Npb5c7pG3o-p9OtHjGiiSW_r7SGLJjqr2BwWpcrdg/s1600-h/cinco.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061270871463464786" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDz2fI7iYuD0d-Rq5uDLVZUYIreZGH8cfPfo0fMxZm3cKyQ304sZS1RaO_76ZHTZoM6Mh2t2f6mNJuPWaabXvxHmVU0yUc2Npb5c7pG3o-p9OtHjGiiSW_r7SGLJjqr2BwWpcrdg/s400/cinco.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">G DUBBZ is poppin' Coronas today. Join him.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">He even brought out the maintain-stereotypes-mariachi-band. Ole! Where's the Taco Bell?</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWYukioiGpXG6jLjG2k4AYJXaic9dX0wuydFH6tpb13_sXlH833R0hh9LbflH38ZWCwuwuiQmJw8Il6uHE2vHts5ISjqslushKlw5qNp-qqEcZf6IocpCFDqLE9bW1evFpqKb6iQ/s1600-h/cinco1.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061270648125165378" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWYukioiGpXG6jLjG2k4AYJXaic9dX0wuydFH6tpb13_sXlH833R0hh9LbflH38ZWCwuwuiQmJw8Il6uHE2vHts5ISjqslushKlw5qNp-qqEcZf6IocpCFDqLE9bW1evFpqKb6iQ/s400/cinco1.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br />And don't forget G DUBBZ's favorite landscaper, Alberto. He's STILL maintaining that pristine, green White House South lawn. The US Department of Justice lawn? Not so much.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">And what would a Mexican celebration be without mentioning </span><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070504-11.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">immigration reform</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">?</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Pop those Coronas, SNITCHES! And don't forget the limes! Hasta luego.</span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-37095591435326711242007-05-04T12:00:00.000-04:002007-05-04T12:39:31.640-04:00JUST a FRIENDLY Game of Basketball<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLOgi0442lACHSuCwkKw8h9vuDkDAd6k6tBF8xiM3Fp9aTsJn-UMN17BygFDVdvQnG5YdIxQcbsRPozwdw1DbUX5ATwH1mJmdboDHbSFD2KEuHFjH5YoBQY7ys401Iu_ecvgHTwA/s1600-h/racerelations.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLOgi0442lACHSuCwkKw8h9vuDkDAd6k6tBF8xiM3Fp9aTsJn-UMN17BygFDVdvQnG5YdIxQcbsRPozwdw1DbUX5ATwH1mJmdboDHbSFD2KEuHFjH5YoBQY7ys401Iu_ecvgHTwA/s400/racerelations.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060739489519669042" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Main Source - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/12-just-a-friendly-game-of-baseball-bonus-version-for-our-friends-in-a-tribe-called-quest-mp3.html">Just a Friendly Game of Baseball </a><span style="font-family:arial;">(Bonus version)</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bob Dylan - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/bob-dylan-06-only-a-pawn-in-their-game-mp3-fa5.html">Only a PAWN in THEIR Game</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">NEWSFLASH! Supremacy permeates every corner of our society! Even sports! Even sports that are NUMERICALLY dominated by Black men. Don't get it twisted. What you SEE isn't what you GET. Yeah, Black men are runnin' up and down the court, but who's holdin' the marionette strings? Who's signin' the checks? Who's the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Million-Dollar-Slaves-Redemption/dp/0609601202/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8339878-1289431?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178295485&sr=8-1">40 million dollar slave</a><span style="font-family:arial;">?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Apparently, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/sports/basketball/02refs.html?bl&ex=1178424000&en=4077d9a752c30455&ei=5087%0A">referees call fouls against black players at a higher rate than white players</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. Does the presence of racism constitute NEWS? Of course, David STERN had a response: “We think our cut at the data is more powerful, more robust, and demonstrates that there is no bias.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I wasn't moved to post about this, until I headed to the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/study-of-nba-sees-racial-bias-in-calling-fouls/">NYTIMES reader's comments</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> about the article. It's amazing what your computer can do to you. Basement bloggers become philosophers. The sheet of anonymity brings out the animosity. The truth lies beneath the surface.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Biochemical Slang got an EXCLUSIVE look at the NYTIMES READERSHIP. Take a look at the NYTIMES readers below and try to match their pictures to their QUOTES, found below. Make a GAME out of it!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The College Grad White (owns a dead prez CD).</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBHG09BmXlZ3ZlffGK6wL0dvwjkfL-4kE6IaHBvGbz5WZSQjenxW3gmmbIZNUGPLrAdqMT3TFkGNsXBJTd1WySWZf3qbd9QRksnFAC21AF5TpQ8oWXUyBt0Mt9421vsQwiLR5wQ/s1600-h/academic-hood-white.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBHG09BmXlZ3ZlffGK6wL0dvwjkfL-4kE6IaHBvGbz5WZSQjenxW3gmmbIZNUGPLrAdqMT3TFkGNsXBJTd1WySWZf3qbd9QRksnFAC21AF5TpQ8oWXUyBt0Mt9421vsQwiLR5wQ/s400/academic-hood-white.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060739377850519330" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The College Grad White: the ANTHROPOLOGY major. </span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvp4Tqg5fH-fN4xPZe0TP0gdS4WAAV2bdb0bSUxPZuSgcCXmYs7eAoPlgHJWbWiSSZQQSCElJbuQ2X7_ZHEtElaF2zdZ1rfixmOTDM484IGJbj7RQvErwlaOEvBRcLRNkwRKBXPw/s1600-h/anthro.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvp4Tqg5fH-fN4xPZe0TP0gdS4WAAV2bdb0bSUxPZuSgcCXmYs7eAoPlgHJWbWiSSZQQSCElJbuQ2X7_ZHEtElaF2zdZ1rfixmOTDM484IGJbj7RQvErwlaOEvBRcLRNkwRKBXPw/s400/anthro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060739283361238802" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The NEVER-gonna-leave-da-BRONX white.</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRtevu5nqs3RGL7bsqvUoFlbihNb_Vs9W2kQhAkFXxydgmerKqYyj34k-6Bdi6mawKri61pk6o2r-BwYc_QtFu12ITM6PUuEocpAUYlqLKiKzPTNH-QIAXAlhI0ohPV_gI3X1kw/s1600-h/joepesci.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRtevu5nqs3RGL7bsqvUoFlbihNb_Vs9W2kQhAkFXxydgmerKqYyj34k-6Bdi6mawKri61pk6o2r-BwYc_QtFu12ITM6PUuEocpAUYlqLKiKzPTNH-QIAXAlhI0ohPV_gI3X1kw/s400/joepesci.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060739120152481538" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The Black academic AKA the Black exception to the rule.</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHm_95SbjzwLNTrXirqZAf3T6P8GLbGaXDt8ML9rF0F_75uZu5h1xkfBzST2I7BRsFTLUW1gck3zOcDcg0JOaN9ydARaeIsLrfXcbIMoENI2X4DNp_c9pNAvZVtGWN87vswvcOg/s1600-h/stan.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHm_95SbjzwLNTrXirqZAf3T6P8GLbGaXDt8ML9rF0F_75uZu5h1xkfBzST2I7BRsFTLUW1gck3zOcDcg0JOaN9ydARaeIsLrfXcbIMoENI2X4DNp_c9pNAvZVtGWN87vswvcOg/s400/stan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060738926878953202" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The you-can't-FEEL-MY-pain white.</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAP-mJYBw1vZ2Lxj2kYbgm5zEvAYxOQcdRmdt-YfwZgJ9SkGPQQ_Vu3KBhSTyLYA_xBG5kE0pSZrYV11SvwNLsTPyrXtSfMa1f6wruM7NOVPjgQ6IMi0kztnzzZqFdpejjYzXlCg/s1600-h/wgg.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAP-mJYBw1vZ2Lxj2kYbgm5zEvAYxOQcdRmdt-YfwZgJ9SkGPQQ_Vu3KBhSTyLYA_xBG5kE0pSZrYV11SvwNLsTPyrXtSfMa1f6wruM7NOVPjgQ6IMi0kztnzzZqFdpejjYzXlCg/s400/wgg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060738609051373266" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/study-of-nba-sees-racial-bias-in-calling-fouls/">NYTIMES Reader's Quotes</a><span style="font-family:arial;">:</span><br /></span><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">What I have experienced is a social failure to instill the same values in every segment of society. The people I have encountered in my life who were raised in urban situations have less “filters” to their vocality. This lack of respect and manners aggrivates me. I treat them with less respect in turn. Am I racist, probably, Classist, more likely.</span></p></li><li> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">look i’m not racist, i’ve even worked in one of the most prestigious african-american ad agencies, but i’ll be completely honest and i get more scared seeing a black man in an alley rather than a white man when it’s late. i bet you if the readers our honest they would say the same thing. and i bet a black guy gets more suspicious of a white guy when all things are equal?</span></p></li><li> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I would be surprised to find that black players DON’T commit more fouls. They seem to whine and complain and expect special treatment more than white players, why wouldn’t they foul more?</span></p></li><li> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Will this nonsense EVER STOP!?!? I’m white and live in the <st1:place st="on">Bronx</st1:place>. If I get pulled over or stopped for anything, can I claim discrimination and maybe sue someone/anyone? Why not? I’M the MINORITY in my neighborhood. Let’s stop with this ridiculous victim mentality. What a joke.</span></p></li><li> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Why don’t we all just stay in our homes for the rest of our lives, as we need to be sensitive to EVERYONE’S feelings! We have to watch what we say, who we say it to and HOW we say it.</span></p></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">...electrifying the hoop so a slam dunker who touches the hoop for more than one second gets a 10 amp shock. Does this sound ludicrous? So does the idea of ANYTHING in the NBA being biased against African-Americans!</span></li><li> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Is it possible that a significant portion of black players learn to play a more physical brand of basketball in the playgrounds/streets than their counterpart whites who were more likely to learn it in some suburban league, and thus blacks are more prone to get called for fouls? I don’t pretend to know the statistics of where white/black players learned to play the game but I suspect that the question I pose above might show some interesting results.</span></p></li><li> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">ridiculous. maybe urban b-ball is rougher than suburban hoops; are they calling more fouls when the “victim” is white and the “criminal” ‘non-white’?</span></p></li><li> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Perhaps the discrepancy is due to the fact that black players break the rules more often, thus getting more fouls.</span></p></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">I LOVE THIS GAME!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Were you able to match the quotes to the pictures?</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-6838438189992754662007-05-02T19:22:00.000-04:002007-05-02T19:34:23.138-04:00Who Punched Ya? Who the EFF CARES?!?!??<span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4cRn4VNJXlNwXwcFE85r8D0qrqOJaTzX4Pb8CFygn1NKrSnou1Y7195CPsXs6_HTnh5KZHt3ra3EHWxZx_yHJXSYEDqUc2ifdZfvnA0zMs68ZuZNXc6vnBecNw1l7XH_-VqPC0Q/s1600-h/sale.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4cRn4VNJXlNwXwcFE85r8D0qrqOJaTzX4Pb8CFygn1NKrSnou1Y7195CPsXs6_HTnh5KZHt3ra3EHWxZx_yHJXSYEDqUc2ifdZfvnA0zMs68ZuZNXc6vnBecNw1l7XH_-VqPC0Q/s400/sale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060108000478138018" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Kurious - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/07-kurious-walk-like-a-duck-mp3.html">Walk Like a Duck</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Masta Ace Inc. - </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/04-masta-ace-jeep-ass-niguh-mp3.html">Jeep A** Niguh</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Has it really come to this? Really? It's bad enough hip-hop has become a ring-tone-driven market. It's now officially worse. In an attempt to keep it real, maintain his "code of ethics," AND give a message to the youth, Tru Life's management company (one of his weed carriers) issued the following statement (email) to the folks at </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=9699">XXL DOT COM</a><span style="font-family:arial;">:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">“The rumors are true. He did punch Cam’ron in the face. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >But he honestly doesn’t want to promote violence. He really feels strong about ending gang violence.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> He feels like they got kids brainwashed with that bullsh*t movement so he got to show them what it is. He feels like he got to keep it a little street just to get the kids’ ears because they listen to the rah-rah sh*t. So once he gets their ear with the bullshit, he’ll get their hearts with the real shit.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It only gets better. Peep Tru Life:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Tru Life says he wants to apologize to hip-hop for the negative press but </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >“you got to break an egg to make an omelet.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> I don’t care how positive dead prez and Mos Def is. Nigg*s just ain’t checkin’ for that.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jay needs to give this dude a better marketing budget. Dude's spendin' all of his money buying drinks at clubs, just </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >waitin'</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> for Cam'ron to enter. Dude can't even afford his schizo pills anymore. If you were wondering...yes, Tru Life IS for the children.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-38580781407703077682007-05-01T06:49:00.000-04:002007-05-01T07:09:49.963-04:00Everybody's Got A Pistol...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10AuEFqtem4Bjt3wi8_nqAeXaqz2IWZnDq0p4XSQHTA5lI_P9k9N6dfGa325OtpS-7P3YpDegwYenzD1q56jaFRUhR1sFHrFqYBjHx1g6Q54yt4XfMaXnb4bM0OmzFQayqjDezQ/s1600-h/guns_white.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10AuEFqtem4Bjt3wi8_nqAeXaqz2IWZnDq0p4XSQHTA5lI_P9k9N6dfGa325OtpS-7P3YpDegwYenzD1q56jaFRUhR1sFHrFqYBjHx1g6Q54yt4XfMaXnb4bM0OmzFQayqjDezQ/s400/guns_white.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059543341127732882" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/gil-scott-heron-gun-mp3.html">GUN</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"> - Gil-Scott Heron</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/04-jesse-james-mp3-syy.html">Jesse James</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"> - Scarface</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's not hide behind the facts: America has a love affair with guns. Yeah, a love affair. We love our guns. We hold 'em. We polish 'em. We take 'em out when no ones looking. We fantasize about our prowess with our steel. We talk to our friends about 'em. Our wives hate 'em. A love affair.</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZCKld-pHU4aFQc3w7Gmdxo33VObRYEMS6t748RD40h14DpLZelK5HrCEZq-q9Sg5S5kvtCDax9KWUh4iXdVj25AblBHOLX9UAVWj6Pc9lrpYSjFBSRtfIcjK1jOmil4GDIqwzSQ/s1600-h/gun_lilkid.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZCKld-pHU4aFQc3w7Gmdxo33VObRYEMS6t748RD40h14DpLZelK5HrCEZq-q9Sg5S5kvtCDax9KWUh4iXdVj25AblBHOLX9UAVWj6Pc9lrpYSjFBSRtfIcjK1jOmil4GDIqwzSQ/s400/gun_lilkid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059542941695774338" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, our laws are merely a reflection of this love affair. Did you know that </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070427/ZNYT02/704270478">terrorist suspects can purchase a gun in this country</a><span style="font-family: arial;">? As long as you have not been found to "have been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism,” that automatic weapon is YOURS. How did you get on that terrorist list in the first place? Nevermind, here's your gun.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Did you know that up until YESTERDAY, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/us/01guns.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin">people with a history of involuntary mental health treatment could purchase a gun in Virginia</a><span style="font-family: arial;">? Don't you just love RETROACTIVE politics? People died at the hands of a mentally ill man with a gun. Next up on our agenda: preventing mentally ill men from purchasing a gun.<br /><br />What happened to anticipatory politics? What happened to vision? </span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokHogwfIHs-ooitpiAJEreZ7-Hsw6NCuEgercK3DeNKXUhmZScMjeW8TruN7-wuapu1zx_0pqlzwnctJ6g2PSg4E35aGkF8Vpcm_locKmRxv4p2w_z0qOU3ySgS3Sz7Eg5VgPYg/s1600-h/diversity.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokHogwfIHs-ooitpiAJEreZ7-Hsw6NCuEgercK3DeNKXUhmZScMjeW8TruN7-wuapu1zx_0pqlzwnctJ6g2PSg4E35aGkF8Vpcm_locKmRxv4p2w_z0qOU3ySgS3Sz7Eg5VgPYg/s400/diversity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059542834321591922" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Don't even get me started on rappers and their love affairs with their guns. Two words: no homo.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-90007256831424229952007-04-30T00:02:00.000-04:002007-04-30T08:55:07.576-04:00NOLA: The EVERYDAY Struggle<span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWRYWgJZ8jDtOrkZfpMQ9G-6h-FupSlwXNJpQWwSOn2l_FGw-OFhev-8FV2dyC6h56MPryg_hP3_ck_F04lzE2Cmq_m41zvxjCvu7oVLXxp1DUtPfnbu1zMRgX0xAk2Nh4mjKJA/s1600-h/lowerrninth.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWRYWgJZ8jDtOrkZfpMQ9G-6h-FupSlwXNJpQWwSOn2l_FGw-OFhev-8FV2dyC6h56MPryg_hP3_ck_F04lzE2Cmq_m41zvxjCvu7oVLXxp1DUtPfnbu1zMRgX0xAk2Nh4mjKJA/s400/lowerrninth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059068403644141154" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><a href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/the-dirty-dozen-brass-band-whats-going-on-feat-chuck-d-mp3.html">What's Goin' On?</a> - The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (feat Chuck D)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><a href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/donny-hathaway-whats-goin-on-mp3-c6h.html">What's Goin' On?</a> - Donny Hathaway</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The truth is out there. You just have to look for it. Opening a newspaper or turning on the news, it's easy to forget that New Orleans is still in the "rebuilding" phase. Eff that. They haven't even crossed the bureacratic red-tape line. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">All the while, the folks of New Orleans are just trying to get by. Grocery stores. Hospitals. Schools with teachers. Streets without guns. They're just trying to get by.</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEz-gECF0tZqa0_6Li4HMJqDWP0_aC40-ggBKDrjpB4CE6w7TGI2tlPNRfBfbtpA6QkUMJs9iDwlGv2wv0FqwVBSpn8Q74p2pS37xp3g-fMCa0b_6VWWWsJ21FkQ9c0OFMrj4e6g/s1600-h/lowerninth_obama.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEz-gECF0tZqa0_6Li4HMJqDWP0_aC40-ggBKDrjpB4CE6w7TGI2tlPNRfBfbtpA6QkUMJs9iDwlGv2wv0FqwVBSpn8Q74p2pS37xp3g-fMCa0b_6VWWWsJ21FkQ9c0OFMrj4e6g/s400/lowerninth_obama.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059068184600809042" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The truth is out there. We'll just help you look. Biochemical Slang presents: News you can USE (NOLA EDITION):</span><br /></span><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="backcontent" id="backCon" style="font-size:10;"><span style="font-size:11;">You don’t have to go to Baghdad to see what happens when government loses its monopoly on force; just visit New Orleans. The title "<a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_new_orleans.html">BAGHDAD ON THE BAYOU</a>" says it all.</span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8HcZIgnk8hE_SlfYbfZw0bPdQJ0Avaf5IYybf2Wb0ffhfgOXGJl25YYUPkHwZgRh3jwRlHrYFKkTTNjJm2aw9JGLad5IGIX4T6ok3PScZuWU5H7MXvvdLiZyN7J9ZVC5RP35Hpg/s1600-h/lowerninth1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8HcZIgnk8hE_SlfYbfZw0bPdQJ0Avaf5IYybf2Wb0ffhfgOXGJl25YYUPkHwZgRh3jwRlHrYFKkTTNjJm2aw9JGLad5IGIX4T6ok3PScZuWU5H7MXvvdLiZyN7J9ZVC5RP35Hpg/s400/lowerninth1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059068012802117186" border="0" /></a><br /></span><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/national-0/117753246794790.xml&storylist=louisiana">The PROJECTS: The slums or the best buildings in flooded New Orleans</a>? I've never been a betting man, but...we all know what's gonna happen to the projects.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Cam'Ron sure didn't help NOLA with his latest publicity stunt: <a href="http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=18827">Scared Silent: Fear of deadly retaliation mutes many NO witnesses</a>.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Teachers may soon be the next to <a href="http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-31/1177188296291260.xml&storylist=louisiana">flee NOLA</a>.<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Not only did FEMA eff up its handling of Katrina, they couldn't even <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/13/AR2007041302187.html">correctly count the number of meals they were forced to throw away</a> after not even delivering them to the Katrina refugees.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Foreign allies offered more than 854 million dollars in aid and oil to help those in need after Hurricane Katrina hit our shores. So far, only <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801113.html?hpid=topnews">40 million has been used and only 400 million has been collected</a>. YOU do the math.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2Aam6xuWObgP9rL4mkTDigaG3X54AUu_vJ3IUqIIfLS8lc08j5SjDfJGAZ8OiL8i2B6FWmUboNtPcD-HAaqEDjFwiR5UIG3DWMn2WXOiPN82fz_VE4vQzkumgtUbMm7BSKg7bA/s1600-h/lowerninth.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2Aam6xuWObgP9rL4mkTDigaG3X54AUu_vJ3IUqIIfLS8lc08j5SjDfJGAZ8OiL8i2B6FWmUboNtPcD-HAaqEDjFwiR5UIG3DWMn2WXOiPN82fz_VE4vQzkumgtUbMm7BSKg7bA/s400/lowerninth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059067832413490738" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Good night and good luck.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-58079576560474010682007-04-27T22:56:00.000-04:002007-04-27T23:54:22.533-04:00G DUBBZ is for the CHILDREN<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVw-g5zArERlI8JOQ2koLcDbtfPVYsE7ol1GdrSrtGe6C-SCfW_w0-hqNgIhosSvIQtG4rPWtmM0GQRN-3zRd9QauQok4mwP_8KSMRCVukKaBaJLeo5k0TQV64zxhTAY7tL9yimg/s1600-h/gdubby_nclb2.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVw-g5zArERlI8JOQ2koLcDbtfPVYsE7ol1GdrSrtGe6C-SCfW_w0-hqNgIhosSvIQtG4rPWtmM0GQRN-3zRd9QauQok4mwP_8KSMRCVukKaBaJLeo5k0TQV64zxhTAY7tL9yimg/s400/gdubby_nclb2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058308005454188066" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nas - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/05-i-can-mp3.html">I CAN</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Bob James remix)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blind Melon - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/03-three-is-a-magic-number-mp3.html">Three is a Magic Number</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Schoolhouse Rocks!)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Biz Markie - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/09-the-energy-blues-miz-markie-mp3.html">Energy Blues</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Schoolhouse Rocks!)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Skee-Lo - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/15-the-tale-of-mr-morton-mp3.html">The Tale of Mr. Morton</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (Schoolhouse Rocks!)</span><br /><br />G DUBBZ <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070424-9.html">recently visited a Harlem charter school</a> to push for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind act. Like our man Jay, DUBBZ knows that numbers don't lie:<br /><br />" It's amazing what happens, though, when you measure. The percentage of New York City 4th graders meeting state standards in reading has increased by more than 12 percent over five years. The percentage of 4th graders doing math at grade level has increased by 19 points."<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKwoMsKkPnu-tUumMgCjBLUlL4syppGES_JGgy6TjsWkw1QqkF1dVFASKOvwWZhh-yaii99_GCiatjNm7gaV9Ok0bNvOwVO28mH7FLvpBJfJ-LJR3fURTrlVAq_naLToyGkcT7w/s1600-h/gdubby_nclb.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKwoMsKkPnu-tUumMgCjBLUlL4syppGES_JGgy6TjsWkw1QqkF1dVFASKOvwWZhh-yaii99_GCiatjNm7gaV9Ok0bNvOwVO28mH7FLvpBJfJ-LJR3fURTrlVAq_naLToyGkcT7w/s400/gdubby_nclb.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058307889490071058" border="0" /></a><br />Biochemical Slang decided to dig up some of its own numbers:<br /></span><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;">The <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/53275">New York City graduation rate is at an all time high, 50%</a> (that's 1 out of every 2 kids, for the math-phobic folks). AND, people are overjoyed: </span><span id="article" class="article_small" style="font-size:85%;">"I think New York City is a very positive story," Commissioner of Education Richard Mills said. "There's just a very determined effort." Chancellor Joel Klein, ever the mathematician, added, </span><span id="article" class="article_small" style="font-size:85%;">"But 50% is a lot better than 44%."</span></li><li><span id="article" class="article_small" style="font-size:85%;">The rate of NYC students who drop out before completing four years of high school is 20%, up from last year's 15%.</span></li><li><span id="article" class="article_small" style="font-size:85%;">There are approximately 70,000 NYC high school students who are either <a href="http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=4&aid=69115">over-age or under-credited</a>. There are only 13,000 seats in programs designed to help these kids graduate. YOU do the math.<br /></span></li><li><span id="article" class="article_small" style="font-size:85%;">Theodore Roosevelt HS, in the Bronx, boasts a <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04262007/news/regionalnews/grad_tidings_regionalnews_kenneth_lovett_in_albany_and_bill_sanderson_and_david_____seifman_in_new_york_city.htm">3% graduation rate</a>. Yeah. Three percent.</span></li><li><span id="article" class="article_small" style="font-size:85%;">57% of the freshmen class of 2001 graduated in five years. Bloomberg's response: </span><span style="font-size:85%;">"If kids graduate in four years, three months, if they graduate in five years, if they graduate in six years, more power to them."</span></li></ul><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcPKkGAf0ebOxIHXrTn7MHr8_rBy8n9Sl8mKWnk140DONb8jnBdAH6iwuMvr-JN_m6rqj02Pd-ATUYdoV3AeAmfZidFP4mur1EVmec5N1-LD5HWJz9ZOr6wzBy-HqBgji-Por4Q/s1600-h/gdubby_nclb3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcPKkGAf0ebOxIHXrTn7MHr8_rBy8n9Sl8mKWnk140DONb8jnBdAH6iwuMvr-JN_m6rqj02Pd-ATUYdoV3AeAmfZidFP4mur1EVmec5N1-LD5HWJz9ZOr6wzBy-HqBgji-Por4Q/s400/gdubby_nclb3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058307713396411906" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Biochemical Slang to G DUBBZ: We don't believe you. You need more NUMBERS.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-68980795886533922532007-04-26T00:37:00.000-04:002007-04-26T07:44:26.994-04:00G DUBBZ is Blacker than Obama *UPDATE*<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG1gpOxpwo57gJVLPnopfmBJwTOuxlSnEvgjD_FNsJ3AZwwTQlgq2InUalhqJUi3LS45o7huYQvvep04x-hc6HAQQ0xwbAexzXKTbSRpfc232Q7J2nIjI9Kjh8hzPqXZnmZhuUhg/s1600-h/gd_ohhhhhh.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG1gpOxpwo57gJVLPnopfmBJwTOuxlSnEvgjD_FNsJ3AZwwTQlgq2InUalhqJUi3LS45o7huYQvvep04x-hc6HAQQ0xwbAexzXKTbSRpfc232Q7J2nIjI9Kjh8hzPqXZnmZhuUhg/s400/gd_ohhhhhh.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057700731438271986" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjigo4Jzvzz61I0-hVekTbzLhZX26VQ3ycT0fMrtf3LQRXcQn80RXtjYDHafSeDKOs3ZHGrf5UcvgEbxEjKMNvv_V885kORfhpNNTzsY2OI5b6ek3hxwoIFadP7typ3wXq09cxPVA/s1600-h/gdubbz_africa.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjigo4Jzvzz61I0-hVekTbzLhZX26VQ3ycT0fMrtf3LQRXcQn80RXtjYDHafSeDKOs3ZHGrf5UcvgEbxEjKMNvv_V885kORfhpNNTzsY2OI5b6ek3hxwoIFadP7typ3wXq09cxPVA/s400/gdubbz_africa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057592751665483234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />"Look at me Laura! I'm doing the African!"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"This is as close to Darfur as I'm gonna get."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"Eff Karl Rove's dance."</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mZ408Y7sw7XrO3EWAzH98cMqsqWONtq0Re-ASaeMaSEM7VpAzpUVkf1VmeboZFu9M_9XgrA0lmxIBxh1y9qcC-Xd5WsfFHVjgaFmPj_n9SWISzuufATCXpiLtZmYwvUlM5Paug/s1600-h/obam.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mZ408Y7sw7XrO3EWAzH98cMqsqWONtq0Re-ASaeMaSEM7VpAzpUVkf1VmeboZFu9M_9XgrA0lmxIBxh1y9qcC-Xd5WsfFHVjgaFmPj_n9SWISzuufATCXpiLtZmYwvUlM5Paug/s400/obam.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057592614226529746" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"Move aside Nee-grow. I have 26 million dollars of the white man's money to spend."<br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >YOU caption the above pictures. (Obama pics courtesy of </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://crunktastical.blogspot.com/">CRUNK & DISORDERLY</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >)</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26595264.post-67829182131797120012007-04-25T11:49:00.000-04:002007-04-25T12:22:20.775-04:00Priorities? Not on the Agenda.<span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1Eb8Ycrojl6tHzr2AO5sQd_okGap4IWht_-pnIVTePhGqZpwuSDlL6I3onESPbTPypWVLsw46BxtYzk_8QnEhtw-XrXvZxFixSdM2l0zRNI2t22_pJvCUFKgRZXPkpn70KwyVw/s1600-h/irak.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1Eb8Ycrojl6tHzr2AO5sQd_okGap4IWht_-pnIVTePhGqZpwuSDlL6I3onESPbTPypWVLsw46BxtYzk_8QnEhtw-XrXvZxFixSdM2l0zRNI2t22_pJvCUFKgRZXPkpn70KwyVw/s400/irak.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057394517449936322" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Graham Central Station - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/larry-graham-ghetto-mp3.html">Ghetto</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sister Nancy - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/4-gwan-a-school-mp3-jvu.html">Gwan a School</a><br /><br />It's bad enough that we will be subjected to a plethora of arguments pertaining to the significance of a black man or woman president, during our trip to 2008. It's even worse when we need <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/education/25schools.html">ADVERTISEMENTS to convince American voters that the education of our children is an ISSUE worth fighting for</a>.<br /><br />How far have we fled from normalcy, when we need to be coerced into VALUING an education? How far have we fled from normalcy, when TV and radio personalities get more press than our FAILING children?<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If only we could get Cam'Ron, Jay, and Lil Wayne to rap about it.</span></span>vikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167002726214508837noreply@blogger.com2