Kid? He's 18, that's when you get trialed as an adult... And he isn't even black. Good riddance IMO, graffiti is not art, it is vandalism. The prick should have gone to paint a mural or something. This guy and his sentence should serve as a strong example of legal consequence to all prospective gangsters out there.

^ I was being a bit facetious. People like me tend to think that things like "economic recessions" aren't caused by forces of nature, but by the big boys in our economy making big mistakes. From a goals point of view, my aim is to make sure that the people at the top making the decisions are the ones who feel the pain of their mistakes instead of the poor.

Eliminating the minimum wage won't make things better for people at the bottom of our society as long as the chief result of some big banker at Goldman Sachs or the Fed making a mistake means that everyone who makes less than $40,000/yr has to take a haircut, while they take home millions in bonuses.

Conservative/libertarian right-wing ideologues seem to think that giving these robber barons and banksters (rhymes with gangsters) a freer hand to fuck over their underlings will make things better for we peasant folk.

I honestly can't fathom why people's basic faculties of reason can be so broken as to think that's really what would happen.

Put another way, is there any historical precedent where cutting or eliminating minimum wage actually improved the lives of the poor? I don't doubt eliminating the minimum wage would reduce unemployment, but so would a ban on powered earth moving equipment for road construction. It doesn't mean it's actually improving the situation at all.

Jesus, look at the hu-man we are creating!! In less than two more generations EVERYONE could be nothing more than worthless lumps of fleshy goo, no-life, zomboid rejects, attached permanently to gaming systems....

WHEN will the next iteration of music coming from folks with African heritage in the U.S. get back to roots and murder all the cheesy gangster fucking rap stars and take R&B to the next level??

WHEN will Life as Art transform society from a lump that can be seen from space of do-nothing wage slaves and robots into humans being?

Please legalize all scheduled drugs and homicide.....pleeaaase?

I don't know, after the build up and shooting then the camera pans around.... and it's Tom Hanks! In my head I heard one of those record scratching YOINK sounds. I can't get a cold blooded gangster vibe from him.

this is highly educational I know know that a house/rap beat makes people violent and that only gangsters slap women.

>> ^quantumushroom:
Ask the same question over at Daily Kos and Huff Post. More perfect terms speed along the message in today's ADD environment. For example, by using "Taxocrat" instead of "Democrat" I don't have to explain every time that the Democratic solution for all problems is to raise taxes.

If I gave a shit about Kos or Huff Post I would. I don't, though. I asked you because your voice, your opposition, is needed here and you undercut all your own arguments by talking like a 4th grader. Acting like a child because some of your opposition acts like children doesn't change the fact that you're acting like a child.

It's not the flavor you're upset with, it's that I'm serving you something that's not on the menu. Unlike your unionized teachers, kollij proffs, goofball gangstaz, hollywood and enter-stainers like Colbertowitz, I have nothing to gain by lying to you about life and consequences, and as I like to point out from time to time, if you can present facts that prove liberal policies do anything but make life harder for a much wider swath of the population than they claim to help, I'm all ears.

I don't believe I've ever accused you of lying; I'm certainly not now. It's not the flavor or the dish that I'm upset with or I'd have said so. My "approval rating" around here may fluctuate but I don't think anyone could seriously accuse me of not saying what I mean. Unions, schools/colleges/universities, gangsters and Hollywood have nothing to do with my questions. You're making my point for me with your misdirection attempt. The Democrats could literally turn into the Communist party you like to claim they are right now and it wouldn't validate your inability to formulate a mature argument.

Dobbs--not a favorite of liberals, a proponent of lawful borders and therefore a "racist"--isn't making stuff up here like some Olbermann, he's reading off an actual proposed bill. That's what's truly frightening.

I mean to actually take a look at the bill when I have the time. As is typical with any "news reporter", Dobbs doesn't actually quote anything from the bill, he just tells us what he (or the Heritage Foundation) wants us to believe it says. He may be telling the truth, but I'd be surprised. If the bill really said any of these things, why not just read/show us the text?

I don't want the opinions of any reporter; I'll form my own when I see the bill. This is why I don't watch the news.

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>> ^Ryjkyj:
It's estimated that thousands of people cross the border from Mexico every year. (some stay, some just visit) So our border has definitely never been secure. I don't even think it's physically possible to secure.

I wish I could remember where I read it, my memory sucks these days, but I read that the number of Asian illegals coming into the US every year are in the millions, yet you never hear anyone include Asians when they refer to illegal immigrants. All you hear is about how we have to build a fence to keeps the Mexicans out. You never hear about the hundreds of thousands of Chinese who spend their life savings to travel, squeezed into a shipping container, to the US, and who are then extorted for more money, that they don't have and forced into slavery for the gangsters that brought them here, or worse have the container dropped off the side of a ship, murdering the several hundred inside, for fear of having the people discovered.

But hell what should we really expect? This country has never had a history of respecting anyone but rich white men.

>> ^flechette:
Did no one else notice the other kid who is kicking the girls?


Yes, but evidently we all approve of such behaviour

(sarcasm obviously)

The first scene roughly plays out like this:
"As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar a wondrous thing happened, why not? They vaporised into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe destroying many many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was at exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them. Earth!

So all over the world couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could have been happier unless it would have been Valentines Day. What? It was? Hooray!"

I dig the message but it seems a bit fucked up that it's coming from Nas. This is the guy behind some of the most pro-violence material I've ever heard back in his heyday. I think I'd prefer today's pop-nonsense to yesterday's gangster rap.

The root of the word is no longer relevant these days, though, Ryjkyj - I work outside, in the sun, but no one would ever consider me a redneck. As for the word 'nigger' - I often hear white males explain their use of the word by saying "I don't think ALL black people are niggers, I think of black people and niggers as two different things. Gangster black guys are niggers, and then there are just normal black guys." Or something along those lines.. Has anyone else encountered this logic?

Regarding the racism debate.

Cholo is not a racist term. The poster's message was hate-filled but contained no derogatory terms.. just derogatory statements. The words Dirty and Mexican are not racist, but if one were to say "Dirty Mexican!" it becomes a borderline racist statement.

I don't care what internet site defines the world "Cholo" as. I'm born and raised in Los Angeles and Cholo is a term used meaning a Hispanic Gangster or Thug. It has nothing to do with cars or clothes, though typically Hispanic Gang Culture does gravitate towards certain cars and clothing styles.

The kid with the gun and his friend are Cholo's. Little Gangsters or Thugs. It's evident to anyone who has been around that culture by their style of dress and even the way he holds the gun.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this

Silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

Of course! You did a lot for me by replacing some of my favorite Jimmy clips, so I wanted to use one of my first promotes on one of your great Jimmy clips!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Promoting is indeed fun! Thanks a lot

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To *promote is fun!