unclemurdles

I try not to re-post news, but people like this really annoy me and I just had to re-post this.  This lady needs to step into the now…

Teacher Confiscates Linux Discs, Chides Charitable Computer Group, “No Software Is Free” [Linux] - via The Consumerist

And now for a public service announcement…

Abunais welcome! FREE RED BULL! CHEE HU!

Bush said on May 1st, 2003 that the Iraq War was “mission accomplished”. Yet, it is October of 2008 and we are still fighting a war in Iraq.  If the mission was accomplished shouldn’t our troups be home and sipping a nice cold beer instead of fighting for the lives from sucided bombers and other Iraqi “anti-americans”?  Seriously GWB, the mission was not accomplished, you said it was and now you look like a fucktard.

It is 6 days till Election, just remember what the Republicans have done for you, they’ve managed to increase the price of gas, fuck the economy up, bring us into a war with no end in sight and pretty much just shit on the general population.  McCain/Palin is just another puppet like Bush was, Palin is a fucking crazy bitch from Alaska, she couldn’t run this country out of a wet paper bag that was already torn. She is incompetent and stupid, because seriously if HPU was to hard to get a degree from you have no right to be in any form of office.  Oh and never mind that her husband is part of the Alaskan sepertists, thats what I’d want the wife of someone who wants a state to leave the nation.  I dont want any of that in our countries government.  And McCain is just one heart beat (or should I say one missed heart beat) away from death, the dudes like 500 years old, he should be in a retirement home playing bingo.  He shouldn’t be trying to run our country!  He is a cranky old senior citizian, stop pretending you are young and hip.

A Vote for the Republicans in this election is a Fuck You vote to the entire country.  Do you really wish to piss that many people off? Think about it, vote wisely.

And I’m Bill Cosby.  Nice to meet you.

IDIOCRACY 2008: The Beginning of the End.

Update: I also forgot to mention that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are real.

Get ready to up the street wear around here! The shirts I designed for kidrobot last year are finally out and available on their web store.

Yes this is shameless self promotion, but I benefit in no way from you buying them. I get no royalties or anything, but I’m just stoked to see them finally come out. Look out Hypebeast, prepare yourself for the mind explosion!

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

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

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you’ll “kick their fuckin’ ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

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

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


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


White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.


White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you’re black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


White privilege is, in short, the problem.

Sorry, been slacking on the blogging lately because I’ve been glued to my TV and Google Reader with all the craziness in the world culminating into a Converge esque mosh pit lately.  Fuckin hurricanes, greedy bastards, clueless bastards, pinocchios, etc.  It’s been an eventful couple of weeks.  All I got is a buzz clip for you right now.  If you want substance, go check out the The Big Picture.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the buzz clip…

Comeback Kid - Wake the Dead

On my recent trip to Seattle I had the unlikely pleasure of meeting two of the most interesting individuals in recent American History. Not even in recent, in ALL of American History. My friend Donald had gotten two front row tickets along the first baseline from his boss at Buca Di Bepo. While taking our seats there was an old guy probably in his 70s sitting in my assigned seat. I hated to move the guy, but to avoid having another person come and ask me to move I politely asked if there had been a mix up. Showing him my ticket, he acknowledged that he in fact had sat in the wrong seat and would move down. I apologized again, and he switched. We got to talking, and to cut to the chase it turned out to be Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The man who made it his life’s work to legalize assisted suicide, and the inventor of the Thenantron (Death Machine). After a slightly awkward pause, I changed the focus of the conversation to me. I told him that I lived in Hawaii, and had an internet show where I interviewed bands. I mentioned that I had just interviewed a band who was majorly influenced by another band called The Suicide Machines; named in his honor. They were from Detroit, not far from Dr. Kervokian’s hometown. He added that he had heard about them, but not in many years. A while back his attorney had issued them a cease and desist and had them change their name. They shortened it from Jack Kervorkian and The Suicide Machines to The Suicide Machines. “Catchy name, one obviously bound for success”, he muttered in a sarcastic bitter way. I then transitioned into asking him why he was in Seattle. He mentioned that he was giving a talk at the University of Washington Medical School. To date, Oregon is only state which has legalized assisted suicide and he felt that Washington might be next. Surprisingly, he was not hesitant to share his views with a complete stranger. You could tell that this was something that he was convicted about. Why wouldn’t he be? He was sentenced to 25 years in jail in 1998 after being convicted for homicide. He only recently has been released due to good behavior. Luckily for me I didn’t ponder all the controversy or his back story. For the most part I stayed composed, and spoke to him with great respect as if were any old guy with a tale to tell. We joked through the 5th inning. The Marines were beating the Twins 3-1 on back to back homeruns in the 2nd. I asked him if he had ever read God Bless You Dr. Kervorkian by Kurt Vonnegut and he said that of course he had. He viewed it as the ultimate compliment and praised the writer for being so innovative. I told him that it would be the something else if I could report on Kurt Vonnegut in the afterlife. “If there is one”, he said with a humorous smile. “Of course”, I replied. He stayed quiet for a moment, and starred at the field. “You must believe in the after life”, the good doctor said. “I do”, I replied. Everyone knows that I heatedly like to talk about faith, spirituality, and religion. Without making eye contact, he says “Well, If you really wanna meet him…”

yep.