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Luigi postulates a potpourri of thoughts
(by Luigi Luciano - October 25, 2007)
What do you think about Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace prize?
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
So do you think Al Gore is one that has been promoting peace, bringing nations together? His whole theory and I state theory on global warming is just that. There are just as many reputable scientists who say that we are not the cause of global warming. As history shows up there has been global warming well before cars, factories and everything else Gore wants us to believe. This man of peace wants to have countries that have no access to electric and other conveniences to stay that way for the sake of the planet. This is a way to keep people suppressed by having no modern conveniences. That is a very humanistic of Mr. Gore.
I have also heard a rumor that Al Gore invented the Nobel Peace Prize as well s the Internet. I guess anything is possible.
Rapper T.I. arrested.
The 27-year-old rapper had arranged to pick up the weapons just hours before he was to take the stage at the Hip-Hop Awards, being taped blocks away, according to the complaint.
First of all who the heck is this guy? Secondly why does it seem that so many Hip Hoppers have to act like thugs? The kill each other, fight with each other and write lyrics that seem hateful, destructive and just ignorant?
In Colorado Springs, Police Chief Richard Myers' directive was to form the Community Impact Team. The strike team would go wherever violent crime led, he said.
Among the places it's led is Colorado Springs' growing hip-hop scene: rap performers, promoters and clubs that feature the music.
The Police Department issued a news release last month claiming that hip-hop venues, including club nights and concerts, are hotbeds of criminal activity. It warned parents and club goers of one event to be concerned about, Eden Nightclub's "Pimp, Thug, and Ho" costume party. The warning was explicit: "Within this genre of music, there are artists that glorify criminal behaviors with a style of music commonly called 'Gangsta Rap,'" the release stated. "This style of music has the tendency to attract gang members which often results in criminal activity requiring a police response." "The people we look for are the ones that like this kind of music," said Lt. Thomas Harris, who heads the police team. Eden canceled its July 12 party because of the publicity.
Of the 10 homicides in Colorado Springs since late May, police have tied one directly to a hip-hop gathering
This is what I am talking about. The government can tell people you can’t eat trans-fats food and get away with it but to stop Hip Hop which is violent, degrading to woman and just plain stupid.
Freedom of speech or not when something can harm others just like second hand smoke it needs to be stopped to protect those innocent people.
Cities upset over baggy pants.
I am sure you have seen them. Kids walking with pants hanging down to their knees with underwear showing? I have and every time I do I pray that one of them will fall over and break a leg or arm. Not to hurt but just enough to make them realize how really stupid they look.
The low-slung style was inspired by the beltless pants worn by prison inmates. It spread through the hip-hop music community to urban neighborhoods and then to the suburbs. The style is predominantly worn by black youth, according to David Bositis, a senior political analyst for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank that focuses on issues related to black Americans.
Again the Hip Hop community endorses something that has been invented by prison inmates. What a role model to look up to.
Even black leaders know this is a problem and endorse the idea of banning this style. In several cities with large black populations, black leaders are pushing the measures. In Atlanta, City Councilman C.T. Martin says he's trying to raise standards and instill values in today's youth.
"Bill Cosby started this conversation, and we let him down," Martin says, referring to the comedian's controversial criticism of the parenting skills, grammar and values of poor blacks.
Once again the ACLU will try to come to the rescue. "These types of ordinances are obviously aimed at African-American male youth," says Holly Dickson, staff attorney for the ACLU in Arkansas, who warns attempts to enforce them could bring court challenges over racial profiling.
Well little Miss Holly I know where I live I see many different races wearing these types of pants not just blacks.
This is freedom of expression? I say it is freedom of ignorance. What parent in their right mind would allow their children to go out looking like that? I know if I was wearing anything like that when I was young my dad would have had to buy new shoes because one of his would have been stuck so far up my butt it would never come out.
Parents wake, be parents and help your children don’t encourage them to dress like this.
Stop being friends with your kids and be the parents they need.
Sean Penn Praised by Venezuela's Chavez
What would you expect? Sean Penn goes to Venezuela and meets with the dictator who calls us all sorts of names. Hates America and its people. Who took control of the entire country. Threw out the free press and Penn’s likes him!
Chavez read aloud from a recent open letter by Penn to President Bush in which the actor condemned the Iraq war and called for Bush to be impeached, saying the president along with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are "villainously and criminally obscene people."
Isn’t this just wonderful. We have some lunatic actor in a time of war running around condemning what the United States is doing to protect its people? He might be calling for Bush’s impeachment but I would be calling for Penn’s act of treason.
Penn is the latest in a series of celebrities who have visited Caracas, including Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte.
I guess all these great actors didn’t have anything to say while they were starting out in this imperialistic country making movies and struggling. Once they made millions then it is OK to speak out against your country.
DO us all a favor and leave. Go to Cuba, Iran or anywhere and see what you can get away with saying about their governments there.
These people think they are so smart but they are just plan ignorant when it comes to the harm they are causing this country and my family by having diarrhoea of the mouth. Do me a favor Penn, Glover and Belafonte. Next time you feel like blabbing your big mouth reach for a bottle of Kaopectate first.
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