And the commercial for wrist cutter G

My old drum N bass loving people will feel this one. Peep these mashups someone made with crazy pentecostal church dancers wiling out to jungle music.

CHURCH!

Airs Dec 2nd, on National Geographic Channel

Alchemist came out with the best rap video I’ve seen in a while

getting down just for the funk of it

Another must see from the makers of Baracky

I first learned of Barack Obama when he began his campaign for the Senate in 2003. He was a mostly unknown state senator at that point, and was campaigning in the Democratic primary for a chance to run for the junior US senate seat. I was flipping through the stations and caught a few minutes of a local news interview with him. It was an unremarkable interview mostly about his record as a state senator, but I payed attention for some reason. A reason I would find out later.

Barack won his primary and went on to face republican Jack Ryan who was a favorite to win the senate seat. Jack was a very handsome slick Harvard graduate who was married to actress Jeri Ryan from Star Trek(yes the fine one in the skin tight costume). Well right in the first few weeks of Jack’s campaign, his divorce papers were opened up by a judge in Los Angeles. And Surprise! He was a sex freak who liked to take his wife to private swinger clubs and have public sex. It made national headlines because his wife was famous, and he ended his campaign for senate a week later. By this time the national media had learned about Barack Obama, and they loved what they saw. The Democratic party decided to make Barack the keynote speaker at the 2004 convention.

I watched that 2004 convention speech on television with millions of other people. I knew by the end of the speech that I had just listened to the first black president of the United States. 

I thought then that he would be president in 16 years, the number 2020 just sounded like a good number. In my wildest dreams, I would never have thought it possible for him to do this in 2008. Sure we all knew that Bush was a disgrace, and the democrats would almost certainly win after his horrible 2nd term. But how was I to know a perfect storm was brewing. And I mean an absolutely perfect storm of Bush failures, combined with the high body counts in Iraq, and of course hurricane Katrina, and then the stock market crash. Toss into that mix a bunch of sex scandals, corruption, greed, war profiteering, incompetence, abuse of power, torture, you name it. This storm was large and still growing, big enough to take down the whole republican crime machine. Like every wish I ever made was granted, and all the good in the world was on our side. The emperor has less than no clothes, he had no skin left, you could see the cancer that had metastasized throughout the republican body politic.

The storm left an opening, and wiped a clear path for Barack. If I believed in god, I would have to say god did this. Whoever you believe in, there is evidence of something guiding this shift in our nation. I wondered as a child if I would ever see a president who was not an old white man, I figured it would happen by the end of my life. To have this complete shift in our politics happen while I am still young, gives me a real deep sense of hope for our society. Where in 2000, after Bush stole the election, I had the darkest feeling in my gut, a total lack of hope for my people. Poor people, no matter the color. Now the poor and hopeless all have been given a chance, an opening. Barack has not let us down, he has run the best campaign I have ever seen, almost no mistakes. By tomorrow night he will be elected president in an amazing landslide victory. Justice for so many things, so many years.

“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.”, I couldn’t have said it any better Michelle.

Even as my life is one big mess, I am peaceful and happy on the eve of history. My president got elected. I like the sound of that, MY president.

Some old raps from random cities

More old gangster rap

A short 15 minute BBC documentary by Greg Palast on how the republicans are trying to steel another election this year. They can not win fair and square, so they try to kick you off the voter rolls.