Baby I really love you now
I think you should stop your crying,
Here's my 'kerchief to dry your eyes
You know that I love you yea...
Damsel, here I am,
Come rub it fi mi belly like a guava jelly
Damsel, here I am,
Come rub it fi mi belly like a guava jelly
Strings... Woooooo
This train, is bound to glory, this train
Talkin bout how
This train, is bound to glory, this train
This train is bound to glory
This 'ere train carry nooo unholy, this train...
I'ma talkin bout, this traaain.
When I was a kid,
My momma used to sing a song,
Now I've grown to be a man,
Well it still lingers deep down in my soul,
I said it still lingers deeeep down in myyy soul,
This train, is bound to glory, this train
Talkin bout how
This train, is bound to glory, this train
This train is bound to glory
This 'ere train carry nooo unholy, this train...
I'ma talkin bout, this traaain.
The stone that the buildah refuse,
will aways be the head cornerstone.
The stone that the buildah refuse,
Will aways be the head cornerstone.
Your a buildah baby,
Baby here I am a stone..
Don't you pick and refuse me,
Cuz the things people refuse, are the things they should use
The things people refuse, are the things they should use
Do you hear me? Here what I said..
The stone that the buildah refuse,
Will aways be the head cornerstone.
The stone that the buildah refuse,
Will aways be the head cornerstone.
Your a buildah baby,
Baby here I am a stone..
Don't you pick and refuse me,
Cuz the things people refuse, are the things they should use
The things people refuse, are the things they should use
----
Do you hear me?
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Monday, September 05, 2005
Katrina
If you ask me, the American Civil war never ended, it only manifested. Realising that the war would not be one with shotguns with poor range, the south sat back and decided they would win the war decades later with politics. Politics have a much larger range than a 12-pound mountain howitzer and is sharper than your average bowie knife, and in the recent days of Hurricane Katrina we're starting to get a clear understanding of this.
All of the southern states banded together a few years ago, and in an act of self-interest equivalent to - if not directly stemming from - the racial and social intersts from the colonial days, these states successfully reelected possibly the the most legitimately notorious American president of all time. Blacks are dying in the south, at the expense of some whites (sounds a lot like the civil war, a bunch of white folk sacrificing their lives so their children could have the right to own a black slave of their own) and the Bush administration is allowing it to happen.
Martial law is being imposed upon looters who are looting stores and stealing food, or at least stealing the means of purchasing food. I suppose someone ought to post a reminder, that the people of New Oreleans aren't in a position to enjoy the luxary of earning a honest wage and idling through supermarkets to decide on snacks to purchase. It should be noted that the national guard didn't show up at the Bush residence when Noelle Bush, George's neice, was caught shoplifting back in '95. I shouldn't use that incident to allude to Bush's hypocracy, after all he wasn't even in power yet. Who knows what he might have done in that case? Maybe he would have indeed had her shot.
Who knows what he might do next? That has been the theme of Bush's reign of terror, and the powers that be in the south are loving every minute of it. New Oreleans is sinking, but the south shall rise again!
All of the southern states banded together a few years ago, and in an act of self-interest equivalent to - if not directly stemming from - the racial and social intersts from the colonial days, these states successfully reelected possibly the the most legitimately notorious American president of all time. Blacks are dying in the south, at the expense of some whites (sounds a lot like the civil war, a bunch of white folk sacrificing their lives so their children could have the right to own a black slave of their own) and the Bush administration is allowing it to happen.
Martial law is being imposed upon looters who are looting stores and stealing food, or at least stealing the means of purchasing food. I suppose someone ought to post a reminder, that the people of New Oreleans aren't in a position to enjoy the luxary of earning a honest wage and idling through supermarkets to decide on snacks to purchase. It should be noted that the national guard didn't show up at the Bush residence when Noelle Bush, George's neice, was caught shoplifting back in '95. I shouldn't use that incident to allude to Bush's hypocracy, after all he wasn't even in power yet. Who knows what he might have done in that case? Maybe he would have indeed had her shot.
Who knows what he might do next? That has been the theme of Bush's reign of terror, and the powers that be in the south are loving every minute of it. New Oreleans is sinking, but the south shall rise again!
Deferred Membership
I think relaxed spirituality is easier to join in on when you're older.
"In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand."
-Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do (and likely a paraphrase from a Mahayanan text)
Wisdom comes with age. I accept my ignorance with neatly folded arms. I need not embrace this kind of ignorance, I am compelled to accept it for the most natural of reasons. I'm young and ambitious. That's not to say that I have any specific ambitions - at night I dream of what was rather than what will be - just the type of unfocused ambition that naturally comes with youth. Filled with thoughts of the lives that I might live, the dreams I might fulfill, the adventures that I might someday call my own, I can't expect myself to lay back and enjoy a peaceful existence.
Others like me like to believe that they can - some have successfully convinced themselves - but really it's a misled belief. People often say that after a rough week at work, or after a turbulant relationship, or other stressful passages; I think what they really mean to say is that they need a break from their lives. When it comes down to it, after a lengthy vacation, they'll be the first ones to push the envelope; the devil makes business for idle hands.
"In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand."
-Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do (and likely a paraphrase from a Mahayanan text)
Wisdom comes with age. I accept my ignorance with neatly folded arms. I need not embrace this kind of ignorance, I am compelled to accept it for the most natural of reasons. I'm young and ambitious. That's not to say that I have any specific ambitions - at night I dream of what was rather than what will be - just the type of unfocused ambition that naturally comes with youth. Filled with thoughts of the lives that I might live, the dreams I might fulfill, the adventures that I might someday call my own, I can't expect myself to lay back and enjoy a peaceful existence.
Others like me like to believe that they can - some have successfully convinced themselves - but really it's a misled belief. People often say that after a rough week at work, or after a turbulant relationship, or other stressful passages; I think what they really mean to say is that they need a break from their lives. When it comes down to it, after a lengthy vacation, they'll be the first ones to push the envelope; the devil makes business for idle hands.
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