tumble

the tumblelog of steven berg

MTV MUSIC - Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel

MTV MUSIC - Michael Jackson - Beat It

MTV MUSIC - Michael Jackson - Bad

RIP Michael Jackson

Too Legit - MC Hammer (Rare Video - Max 10 Min)

There is an awful lot of questions about how this election was run.

Joe Biden. Yeah, and there’s never been any fraud in a USA presidential election.

what Obama doesn’t want you to see

what Obama doesn’t want you to see

Why has Obama extended the Iraq occupation timeline? Why is he surging troops in Afghanistan? Why won’t he shut down Cold War relic bases in Germany and elsewhere? Possibly because of strategic considerations. Possibly because he’s a tool of the military-industrial complex. But also possibly - and nobody ever seems to mention this - because he doesn’t want to dump a quarter of a million Americans on an economy that won’t hire them. Thoughts?

D. Aristophanes (via mitch). Thought: WTF × ∞

A plan to honor gays and other non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution in Brooklyn’s Holocaust Memorial Park was blasted Sunday by critics as political pandering. Politicians and community activists gathered at the Sheepshead Bay park Sunday to demand Mayor Bloomberg block a plan they contend undermines the memorial’s core message. “The Holocaust is a uniquely Jewish event,” said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), whose mother is a Holocaust survivor.

Holocaust Memorial Park doesn’t need addition - Assemblyman Dov Hikind (via Michael J. Smith)

Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the centre of America’s founding. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from eastern Europe to Indonesia. It’s a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.

Barack Obama. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha what? He wasn’t kidding???

πειρατικός.net

Peiratikos finally has a proper Greek domain. Too bad I couldn’t get this years ago when Peiratikos was still active. Oh well.

The four men arrested Wednesday night in what the authorities said was a plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y. were petty criminals who appeared to be acting alone, not in concert with any terrorist organization, the New York City police commissioner said Thursday.

N.Y. Bomb Plot Suspects Acted Alone, Police Say - NYTimes.com. They didn’t collaborate with any terrorist organization other than the FBI, whose informant claimed to represent a terrorist organization and helped them make up their plan and get all their supplies.

The pen is to thought what the stick is to walking, but one walks most easily without a stick, and thinks most perfectly when no pen is at hand. It is only when a man begins to get old that he likes to make use of a stick and his pen.

Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Authorship and Style,” translated by Rudolf Dircks