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Aug. 11th, 2012
The Sikh temple shooter, Michael Page, is reported to have been a part of the white supremacist hate rock scene, and here is an interesting take on that scene.
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[Hate rock's] heyday ... roughly spanned the mid-90s. In its first three years of operation, Resistance was selling nearly 100,000 CDs and cassette tapes a year. Spurred by Burdi’s success, several record labels like Panzerfaust and Label 56 began to make the music available to the world via the largely anonymous marketplace of the internet. While skinhead bands sometimes struggled to find audiences in the U.S., they found legions of fans in Europe. The aftermath of the Cold War found many young Europeans clamoring for nationalism and an outlet for anti-immigrant hate, creating a concert market for American hate rock bands.
In musical terms, the central irony of hate rock is that it is fundamentally black music.
Anchored in the 12-bar blues, the music of white supremacy is, formally speaking, a tribute to Chuck Berry as much as anything else. But such irony is lost on most hate rockers, or at least it’s beside the point. (Just try to explain to a neo-Nazi fan of Gaelic music that the Irish were not considered “white” a hundred years ago.) Their goal is simple: to express the alienation and frustration of straight white males who feel the loss of their special rights and privileges, using the most hyper-masculine, aggressive mode available to them.
-- Randy Blazak
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[Hate rock's] heyday ... roughly spanned the mid-90s. In its first three years of operation, Resistance was selling nearly 100,000 CDs and cassette tapes a year. Spurred by Burdi’s success, several record labels like Panzerfaust and Label 56 began to make the music available to the world via the largely anonymous marketplace of the internet. While skinhead bands sometimes struggled to find audiences in the U.S., they found legions of fans in Europe. The aftermath of the Cold War found many young Europeans clamoring for nationalism and an outlet for anti-immigrant hate, creating a concert market for American hate rock bands.
In musical terms, the central irony of hate rock is that it is fundamentally black music.
Anchored in the 12-bar blues, the music of white supremacy is, formally speaking, a tribute to Chuck Berry as much as anything else. But such irony is lost on most hate rockers, or at least it’s beside the point. (Just try to explain to a neo-Nazi fan of Gaelic music that the Irish were not considered “white” a hundred years ago.) Their goal is simple: to express the alienation and frustration of straight white males who feel the loss of their special rights and privileges, using the most hyper-masculine, aggressive mode available to them.
-- Randy Blazak
The Sikh temple shooter, Michael Page, is reported to have been a part of the white supremacist hate rock scene, and here is an interesting take on that scene.
_ _ _
[Hate rock's] heyday ... roughly spanned the mid-90s. In its first three years of operation, Resistance was selling nearly 100,000 CDs and cassette tapes a year. Spurred by Burdi’s success, several record labels like Panzerfaust and Label 56 began to make the music available to the world via the largely anonymous marketplace of the internet. While skinhead bands sometimes struggled to find audiences in the U.S., they found legions of fans in Europe. The aftermath of the Cold War found many young Europeans clamoring for nationalism and an outlet for anti-immigrant hate, creating a concert market for American hate rock bands.
In musical terms, the central irony of hate rock is that it is fundamentally black music.
Anchored in the 12-bar blues, the music of white supremacy is, formally speaking, a tribute to Chuck Berry as much as anything else. But such irony is lost on most hate rockers, or at least it’s beside the point. (Just try to explain to a neo-Nazi fan of Gaelic music that the Irish were not considered “white” a hundred years ago.) Their goal is simple: to express the alienation and frustration of straight white males who feel the loss of their special rights and privileges, using the most hyper-masculine, aggressive mode available to them.
-- Randy Blazak
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[Hate rock's] heyday ... roughly spanned the mid-90s. In its first three years of operation, Resistance was selling nearly 100,000 CDs and cassette tapes a year. Spurred by Burdi’s success, several record labels like Panzerfaust and Label 56 began to make the music available to the world via the largely anonymous marketplace of the internet. While skinhead bands sometimes struggled to find audiences in the U.S., they found legions of fans in Europe. The aftermath of the Cold War found many young Europeans clamoring for nationalism and an outlet for anti-immigrant hate, creating a concert market for American hate rock bands.
In musical terms, the central irony of hate rock is that it is fundamentally black music.
Anchored in the 12-bar blues, the music of white supremacy is, formally speaking, a tribute to Chuck Berry as much as anything else. But such irony is lost on most hate rockers, or at least it’s beside the point. (Just try to explain to a neo-Nazi fan of Gaelic music that the Irish were not considered “white” a hundred years ago.) Their goal is simple: to express the alienation and frustration of straight white males who feel the loss of their special rights and privileges, using the most hyper-masculine, aggressive mode available to them.
-- Randy Blazak
The Strangeness of Sleep
Aug. 11th, 2012 09:00 amFor sleep is rather extraordinary. If I told you that I had a neurological disease which meant that for eight or more hours a day I lost control of my faculties, bade farewell to the outside world, and was subject to complex hallucinations and delusions – such as being chased by a grizzly bear at Stockport Railway Station – you would think I was in a pretty bad way.
-- Raymond Tallis at Philosophy Now Magazine
Our animal natures are indeed dark and mysterious. Just think of sex! Talk about a strange condition. You feel compelled to run your hands all over another person's body and to lick and suck, and your dick becomes larger and completely solid, and you want to ram it into her openings until this charged-up dick discharges its milky load. Or for something less provocative, consider our constant need to stuff our mouths with food, rather like sharks on two legs. Being pregnant and giving birth is also something to wonder at. Getting old and dying is no light matter either. Of course, it could be said that what truly makes us stange is the fact that we should be so intelligent and conscious about all of this.
-- Raymond Tallis at Philosophy Now Magazine
Our animal natures are indeed dark and mysterious. Just think of sex! Talk about a strange condition. You feel compelled to run your hands all over another person's body and to lick and suck, and your dick becomes larger and completely solid, and you want to ram it into her openings until this charged-up dick discharges its milky load. Or for something less provocative, consider our constant need to stuff our mouths with food, rather like sharks on two legs. Being pregnant and giving birth is also something to wonder at. Getting old and dying is no light matter either. Of course, it could be said that what truly makes us stange is the fact that we should be so intelligent and conscious about all of this.
The Strangeness of Sleep
Aug. 11th, 2012 09:00 amFor sleep is rather extraordinary. If I told you that I had a neurological disease which meant that for eight or more hours a day I lost control of my faculties, bade farewell to the outside world, and was subject to complex hallucinations and delusions – such as being chased by a grizzly bear at Stockport Railway Station – you would think I was in a pretty bad way.
-- Raymond Tallis at Philosophy Now Magazine
Our animal natures are indeed dark and mysterious. Just think of sex! Talk about a strange condition. You feel compelled to run your hands all over another person's body and to lick and suck, and your dick becomes larger and completely solid, and you want to ram it into her openings until this charged-up dick discharges its milky load. Or for something less provocative, consider our constant need to stuff our mouths with food, rather like sharks on two legs. Being pregnant and giving birth is also something to wonder at. Getting old and dying is no light matter either. Of course, it could be said that what truly makes us stange is the fact that we should be so intelligent and conscious about all of this.
-- Raymond Tallis at Philosophy Now Magazine
Our animal natures are indeed dark and mysterious. Just think of sex! Talk about a strange condition. You feel compelled to run your hands all over another person's body and to lick and suck, and your dick becomes larger and completely solid, and you want to ram it into her openings until this charged-up dick discharges its milky load. Or for something less provocative, consider our constant need to stuff our mouths with food, rather like sharks on two legs. Being pregnant and giving birth is also something to wonder at. Getting old and dying is no light matter either. Of course, it could be said that what truly makes us stange is the fact that we should be so intelligent and conscious about all of this.
The Perfect Bitch?
Aug. 11th, 2012 12:00 pmKim Kardashian is thrilled to be the inspiration for Kanye West's new song, "Perfect Bitch" ... TMZ has learned.
Kim is telling friends, "I'm honored. I love it," adding, "I know he doesn't mean it in a negative way when he says the word 'bitch.'"
-- ONTD
Umm, okay! Actually, I kind of like it myself, but it is in the spirit of a dominant-submissive kind of sex-playing, right? It is not something to please the politically-correct feminist. It probably wouldn't please Naomi Wolf, for instance, but then Naomi doesn't have Kim's sweet ass.
Kim is telling friends, "I'm honored. I love it," adding, "I know he doesn't mean it in a negative way when he says the word 'bitch.'"
-- ONTD
Umm, okay! Actually, I kind of like it myself, but it is in the spirit of a dominant-submissive kind of sex-playing, right? It is not something to please the politically-correct feminist. It probably wouldn't please Naomi Wolf, for instance, but then Naomi doesn't have Kim's sweet ass.
The Perfect Bitch?
Aug. 11th, 2012 12:00 pmKim Kardashian is thrilled to be the inspiration for Kanye West's new song, "Perfect Bitch" ... TMZ has learned.
Kim is telling friends, "I'm honored. I love it," adding, "I know he doesn't mean it in a negative way when he says the word 'bitch.'"
-- ONTD
Umm, okay! Actually, I kind of like it myself, but it is in the spirit of a dominant-submissive kind of sex-playing, right? It is not something to please the politically-correct feminist. It probably wouldn't please Naomi Wolf, for instance, but then Naomi doesn't have Kim's sweet ass.
Kim is telling friends, "I'm honored. I love it," adding, "I know he doesn't mean it in a negative way when he says the word 'bitch.'"
-- ONTD
Umm, okay! Actually, I kind of like it myself, but it is in the spirit of a dominant-submissive kind of sex-playing, right? It is not something to please the politically-correct feminist. It probably wouldn't please Naomi Wolf, for instance, but then Naomi doesn't have Kim's sweet ass.
Teacher of the Year - Not!
Aug. 11th, 2012 03:00 pmMr. Timothy Olmstead is no 'Welcome Back, Kotter". He's not Jewish, for instance. But he does have a whacky sense of humor.
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Olmsted resigned after the district placed him on paid leave in the spring after parents complained that he called black students "fat, black and stupid" and told them, "you will never amount to anything" and "you only have one parent," WCCO reported.
The teacher also allegedly forced black students to sit in the back of the classroom, or sit with their desks facing the wall.
"He told the whole entire class that it is easier for him to teach rich white folks than poor black people," Tolbert told WCCO.
[...]
But the educator has a record of controversy. The St. Paul School District reported in 2002 that Olmsted gave a sixth grade girl a birthday card with sexual innuendos, and requested that she read it to the class. He was also accused of giving a graphic description of castrating horses and throwing testicles into a field to feed cats.
-- News-LJ
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Olmsted resigned after the district placed him on paid leave in the spring after parents complained that he called black students "fat, black and stupid" and told them, "you will never amount to anything" and "you only have one parent," WCCO reported.
The teacher also allegedly forced black students to sit in the back of the classroom, or sit with their desks facing the wall.
"He told the whole entire class that it is easier for him to teach rich white folks than poor black people," Tolbert told WCCO.
[...]
But the educator has a record of controversy. The St. Paul School District reported in 2002 that Olmsted gave a sixth grade girl a birthday card with sexual innuendos, and requested that she read it to the class. He was also accused of giving a graphic description of castrating horses and throwing testicles into a field to feed cats.
-- News-LJ
Teacher of the Year - Not!
Aug. 11th, 2012 03:00 pmMr. Timothy Olmstead is no 'Welcome Back, Kotter". He's not Jewish, for instance. But he does have a whacky sense of humor.
_ _ _
Olmsted resigned after the district placed him on paid leave in the spring after parents complained that he called black students "fat, black and stupid" and told them, "you will never amount to anything" and "you only have one parent," WCCO reported.
The teacher also allegedly forced black students to sit in the back of the classroom, or sit with their desks facing the wall.
"He told the whole entire class that it is easier for him to teach rich white folks than poor black people," Tolbert told WCCO.
[...]
But the educator has a record of controversy. The St. Paul School District reported in 2002 that Olmsted gave a sixth grade girl a birthday card with sexual innuendos, and requested that she read it to the class. He was also accused of giving a graphic description of castrating horses and throwing testicles into a field to feed cats.
-- News-LJ
_ _ _
Olmsted resigned after the district placed him on paid leave in the spring after parents complained that he called black students "fat, black and stupid" and told them, "you will never amount to anything" and "you only have one parent," WCCO reported.
The teacher also allegedly forced black students to sit in the back of the classroom, or sit with their desks facing the wall.
"He told the whole entire class that it is easier for him to teach rich white folks than poor black people," Tolbert told WCCO.
[...]
But the educator has a record of controversy. The St. Paul School District reported in 2002 that Olmsted gave a sixth grade girl a birthday card with sexual innuendos, and requested that she read it to the class. He was also accused of giving a graphic description of castrating horses and throwing testicles into a field to feed cats.
-- News-LJ
Paul Ryan gets the VP Nod
Aug. 11th, 2012 04:00 pmMore than three-fifths of the cuts proposed by Mr. Ryan, and eagerly accepted by the Tea Party-driven House, come from programs for low-income Americans. That means billions of dollars lost for job training for the displaced, Pell grants for students and food stamps for the hungry. These cuts are so severe that the nation’s Catholic bishops raised their voices in protest at the shredding of the nation’s moral obligations.
[...]
Mr. Ryan responded that he was helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the government.
-- New York Times editorial
Mr. Ayn Rand himself. Liberals like to bitch about Obama, but imagine a Romney-Ryan America. Cripes, we barely survived Dubya!
[...]
Mr. Ryan responded that he was helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the government.
-- New York Times editorial
Mr. Ayn Rand himself. Liberals like to bitch about Obama, but imagine a Romney-Ryan America. Cripes, we barely survived Dubya!
Paul Ryan gets the VP Nod
Aug. 11th, 2012 04:00 pmMore than three-fifths of the cuts proposed by Mr. Ryan, and eagerly accepted by the Tea Party-driven House, come from programs for low-income Americans. That means billions of dollars lost for job training for the displaced, Pell grants for students and food stamps for the hungry. These cuts are so severe that the nation’s Catholic bishops raised their voices in protest at the shredding of the nation’s moral obligations.
[...]
Mr. Ryan responded that he was helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the government.
-- New York Times editorial
Mr. Ayn Rand himself. Liberals like to bitch about Obama, but imagine a Romney-Ryan America. Cripes, we barely survived Dubya!
[...]
Mr. Ryan responded that he was helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the government.
-- New York Times editorial
Mr. Ayn Rand himself. Liberals like to bitch about Obama, but imagine a Romney-Ryan America. Cripes, we barely survived Dubya!
These LiveJournal Blues
Aug. 11th, 2012 08:04 pmOh, LJ, LJ...
Last night, we could not see the comments, and this morning, I discovered that the ‘scheduled entries’ function is being quirky on how it is recording posting-times, and now I cannot get it to post for the right time at all, and the spoiler-cuts are no longer working.
The Russian administrators keep fiddling with it, apparently in the hopes of making LJ more like Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook, but mostly succeeding in making LiveJournal look like even more of a waste of time than it already has to too many former LJers.
Last night, we could not see the comments, and this morning, I discovered that the ‘scheduled entries’ function is being quirky on how it is recording posting-times, and now I cannot get it to post for the right time at all, and the spoiler-cuts are no longer working.
The Russian administrators keep fiddling with it, apparently in the hopes of making LJ more like Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook, but mostly succeeding in making LiveJournal look like even more of a waste of time than it already has to too many former LJers.
These LiveJournal Blues
Aug. 11th, 2012 08:04 pmOh, LJ, LJ...
Last night, we could not see the comments, and this morning, I discovered that the ‘scheduled entries’ function is being quirky on how it is recording posting-times, and now I cannot get it to post for the right time at all, and the spoiler-cuts are no longer working.
The Russian administrators keep fiddling with it, apparently in the hopes of making LJ more like Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook, but mostly succeeding in making LiveJournal look like even more of a waste of time than it already has to too many former LJers.
Last night, we could not see the comments, and this morning, I discovered that the ‘scheduled entries’ function is being quirky on how it is recording posting-times, and now I cannot get it to post for the right time at all, and the spoiler-cuts are no longer working.
The Russian administrators keep fiddling with it, apparently in the hopes of making LJ more like Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook, but mostly succeeding in making LiveJournal look like even more of a waste of time than it already has to too many former LJers.