Samantha Bee Does al-Jazeera

This is a hilarious story about al-Jazeera English. What seems to be a reputable news network, gets an American makeover from Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee. What follows is simply hilarious.

Nice Quote

" A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Another Quote

If an attractive young couple enters my realm, I will carefully monitor their activities. If I find they are happy and affectionate, I will ignore them. However if circumstance have forced them together against their will and they spend all their time bickering and criticizing each other except during the intermittent occasions when they are saving each others' lives at which point there are hints of sexual tension, I will immediately order their execution.

--The Evil Overlord List

We Are Without Form, Thus We Are Awestruck...

Thus the blade is brought down a second time. Under the name of a mask.

These are a few quotes from Bleach, the manga, that I think are really pretty.

"We fear that which we cannot see"

"People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them"

"If I were the rain
That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch
Could I join two hearts as well?"

"We are drawn to each other
Like drops of water, like the planets
We repulse each other
Like magnets, like the colors of our skin"

"I can't protect you without holding a sword.
I can't embrace you while holding a sword."

"Yes, there is no Fate for us
Only those who are swallowed by
Ignorance and fear and miss a step
Fall into the rapid river called Fate"

"We should not shed tears
That is a surrender of the body to the heart
It is only proof
That we are beings that do not know
What to do with out hearts

"If it is rusts, it can never be trusted
If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him
Yes, pride is
Like a blade"

"Oh, all of us dream
That we are flying the skies
With out eyes open"

"We reach out with our hands
Brush away the clouds and pierce the sky
To grab the moon and Mars
but we still can't reach the truth"

"Light a fire to the fang that cannot be reached
So that I do not have to see that star
So that I do not slit this throat"

"We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful
because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge,
unable to step out into the sky
like that fearless flower"

"Every time we set aside our pride
We take a step closer to the beast
Every time we kill an emotion
We take a step away from the beast"

"Creak, creak, tower of purgatory
Piercing the world like light
Sway, sway, tower of spine
Will it be us or the sky that falls?"

"I just keep practicing. Saying goodbye to you"

"The constant shower of the sun's mane
will erase the remaining footprints on the thin ice.
Don't be afraid when you are deceived
for the world is already full of deception."

"Red like blood.
White like bone.
Red like solitude.
White like silence.
Red like the beastly instinct.
White like a god's heart.
Red like thawing hatred.
White like a frozen, pained cry.
Red like the night's hungry shadows.
So shooting through the moon in a sigh is like
radiant white, scattered red."

"Your shadow stealthily
leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle
that sews together my footsteps.
Your light pliantly
strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt.
that severs the source of my life."

"That's right, nothing else can change my world."

"One who paints the beauty in love
is one who pretends to know her form.
One who paints the ugliness in love
is one who once arrogantly knew her"

"This entire world
exists for the sake of cornering you."

"There is no meaning in our world
And no meaning is us who live there
We, meaningless, think of the world
Although knowing that there is no meaning there
Is even meaningless itself"

"We are the fish in front of a waterfall
We are insects inside a cage
We are the remains of a high wave,
The staff of the skull,
The stream of power, the whale that swallows it all
We are the ox with five horns
We are the monster that blows out fire
The children that wail
Ah, we are
Poisoned by the moon light"

"We are all
dead since we are born
The end is
there before anything starts
If to live is
to continue learning
The end is when we learn the very last thing
To finally discover the end
and learning about it completely
is what death is
We are not allowed to learn about something
Those who cannot transcend death,
shouldn't learn of anything"

No Pooftahs!

Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you, Amen! Do you know what a pooftah is? Probably not. That's okay, tho. Firstly, READ THIS GORRAM STORY!!! Seriously, it's the bomb. Also, I'm thinking that I want to design a website. That'll be fun. I wanted this post to be about something poignant as well as topical, but to be completely honest, I can't really think of anything. Wow, this is a waste of post, but sometimes.

Listen Up!: An Open Letter to the Black Folk of America from Somebody who May Not Been Around Long, but Knows a Problem When She Sees One

*This started as a response to a Digg article about black apathy. While the website may or may not have less than admirable goals, the discussion it started was a good one.

I think it's far too easy for a lot of Black people to say, 'The White Man did this' or that, instead of taking responsibility. It reminds me of a conversation that I was having with my bro the other night. We were listening to some hard core rap (crunk music, or something) and I made mention that I'd rather have my kids 'acting white' than 'acting black'. Now, I should clarify. Of course, I want my kids to have the best of both worlds, but I want them to have a good education, speak proper English, and take pride in themselves. It's a problem for me that in this country 'acting white' is being well read, 'geeky' if you will, being level headed (boring, even), etc. While 'acting black' is having bling, saying words like bling, and making songs with bitch or ho in the title. Okay, vague generalization city, but I'm hitting the mark. We (black folk) have a long way to go in this country, yes, racism still exists, but I think that black people are more willing to act as victims, instead of taking their own destiny in their hands. There are a lot of black men in American prisons. A disproportionate amount, actually, and one could look at this and say, 'This is racism, they're locking our men away and destroying our families.' However, you must have done something wrong to go to jail. A large majority of the time, you are guilty of the crime you commit. So, where does that leave us? With an economy that doesn't support the lower classes, which causes them to turn to illegal activity. With judges who have little or no compassion for a person who was just trying to do right by their family, and has done something that hurts other as well. With homes with one (or less) parents, which cause children to lose direction. The justice system's flawed, the courts are flawed, the government is flawed. The list goes on and on. But it's time for us to take a look at what we're doing and where we are and try to make changes. Yes, we came from slaves, but we also came from people who were beaten, and bombed. Who had attack dogs turned on them, and were sent to jail, just because they wanted basic freedoms like the right to vote, and being able to sit at the front of the bus. Those people were heroes. They rose above their circumstances and made life better for themselves because they wanted something more. We stand of the shoulders of those people. We have it in us. The genes are there, we just have to be willing to put in the effort. And it's not easy. No one ever said that it would be. Young black folk these days want things handed to them. They want to become the next big rapper, or basketball star, or overnight sensation. While the businesspeople, the politicians and others aren't getting the same airtime. It's not just a problem for black people, it's a problem for all people. A large number of young people today (no matter what the race) are touched by apathy. They don't vote, and they don't keep up with world affairs; if it's not going on in their backyard, they're not interested. This hits black young people especially hard, because while white folk have had their liberties long enough to become bored with them; we have not. It's only been about forty years since the steps where taken to ensure that every black person in America was guaranteed to have the right to vote, and we can't even get our young people out to an election. If faced with the same problems that Medgar Evers and Rosa Parks were faced with, can you see 50 Cent or Ja Rule on a bus, refusing to give up their seat, or Lil' Kim on a march to Washington? I'm sick of the apathy of people! Not just black people, but all people. But it's sickening to see it in a group of people who haven't even had liberty long enough for the taste to become stale in their mouths. So, we have a responsibility. No one wants to hear about it, but it's important for us to know. I don't live in the 'hood', but I have single parent friends. I have cousins that are on welfare, and working on their fifth kid. I have family that's in prison for drugs, and they think it's too late to turn their life around. I have seen these things, and just because I haven't lived them doesn't mean that I don't know how hard things can be. I don't have sex, not because I can't, but because I know I'm not ready for a child. You can have sex (if you're careful) and not have a child, but I'm not even taking that chance. Welfare families are turning out more welfare families as 14 year olds are having kids and when they're 14 they start having kids. I have seen this with my own eyes, in my own life! So, what's to do? What can black folks start doing to take the blame off the 'white man' and start taking responsibility for themselves. Well, the first thing is to start taking responsibility for yourself. For your actions. It's not going to be easy, and it's not going to be selling crack one day and being a stock broker the next. It takes time, and it takes commitment, and heck, it takes money. But the fact remains that if black folk don't get their stuff together, not only are the next forty years going to be not as good as the last forty, they won't be as good as the last hundred. And you don't need a centenarian to know that won't be enjoyable.

They Call Me TINKerbell

It may be emo, but I hate my dad. Sometimes. Actually, this posts not about that. It's really about that. So, I was thinking if I ever got a tattoo, that it would be a little Tinkerbell on my shoulder. You know Tinkerbell, right? She's the little pixie from Peter Pan. However, apparently now it's in for women to get Tinkerbell tattoos all over their drunken bodies, and it's giving people like me, who have a legitimate attachment to the little fairy, a bad name. My dad is blind, and when I was little I used to have to wear bells on my shoes. They sell them for everybody. Mostly so you can keep track of your little one when they'll wander off and be under the grand piano or something, and you want to be sure that they're not eating Drano. Or drinking Drano. Whatever. I dunno if they sell them so much anymore, but when I was younger they used to sell them all the time. Then again, I don't spend that much time anymore on the baby aisles, so maybe they do. So, anyway, yeah, I used to wear these bells on my shoes, and my parents started calling me Tinkerbell, or just Tink, or even Tinka. So, that stuck, and they still call me that today (when they're not cursing me out, anyway). So, I figure, why shouldn't I be able to proudly hold up the moniker Tinkerbell, without all these drunk soroity girls trying to steal it from me? Why, I ask you, why?

Season 2 Begins...

A little animation I did, to celebrate Rome Season Two. It starts (if you just don't want to watch the thing at all) January 14th at 9 on HBO. Seriously, I watched this show all last season (which was technically two years ago), and it was awesome! So watch it and enjoy this animation.

HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR - Ichirin no Hana (Subs)

This is really hard rock Japanese video, that is really good, and also, the theme to one of one of my favorite anime's Bleach. Enjoy!

My Real Result (But I Hate Her!!!)...

You scored as Jean Grey. Jean Grey is likely the most powerful X-Man. She loves Cyclops very much but she has a soft spot for Wolverine. She's psychic so she can sense how others are feeling and tries to help them. She also has to control her amazing powers or the malevolent Phoenix entity could take control of her and wreak havok. Powers: Telekinetic, Telepathic Jean Grey 55% Storm 50% Nightcrawler 50% Cyclops 45% Gambit 45% Iceman 40% Wolverine 35% Beast 35% Rogue 30% Colossus 25% Emma Frost 25% Most Comprehensive X-Men Personality Quiz 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

What I Wanted (Cause I Love Him)...

You scored as Gambit. Gambit is another loner character. He loves Rogue. He has a very cool deboner personality. He's done things in his past that he's not proud of but he atones for his actions by fighting for peace with the X-Men. His weapon of choice is the playing card. Powers: Charges objects with kinetic energy by touching them, then they explode like grenades. Gambit 70% Iceman 65% Beast 60% Colossus 60% Emma Frost 50% Jean Grey 45% Storm 45% Wolverine 45% Cyclops 45% Nightcrawler 40% Rogue 35% Most Comprehensive X-Men Personality Quiz 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com