MILK... a must see!

Have you had your dose today? Milk... it does your body good. We'll, I don't really know about that, but I can say this Milk, starring Sean Penn, will do your mind some good.

As always, Sean Penn is incredible. What an actor! There's just not that many people in Hollywood like him right now. But everyone else was good as well, even James Franco which I'm not a huge fan of. Diego Luna of "Y Tu Mama También" was great as the emotionally unstable little Mexican queen who's obsessed with Harvey.

Aside from the actor's performances... I must say, I didn't know much about Harvey Milk and his contribution to the Gay community, yet the film is really inspiring and gave me a good overview about who this man was and his place in American politics. 

The film was also well executed on Van Sant's part. I mean, some people might cringe at the first instance Penn and Franco kiss each other... and then there's the sex scenes, which really don't show anything. I bet that if this were a lesbian movie, the sex scenes would be different if you know what I mean... but that's entirely another blog.

But the film is a must see because of Penn. Did I say how much I like him already! He's just a god. 

Violence in Gaza

 

Israelis have recently air bombed the Gaza strip in response to a cease fire and some rockets launched at Israel by the Hamas group that caused minimal damage and 1 casualty.

In response the Israeli forces deployed something like 6,500 soldiers and bombed and air raided the Gaza strip killing 277 and wounding approximately 700 people, including young soldiers who were graduating from military training. From my understanding of the articles I've read in Drudge Report and HuffPost, they attacked the ceremony site. Isn't that like shooting at somone who has no weapons, or from behind when they don't see it coming and cannot defend themselves? How cowardly! Was that really necessary? Was this type of response really necessary?

The EU has condemned both nations, Palestine for the instigation and Israel for the excessive use of reckless force. 

The Israeli response makes it look like they are dying to come down on the Palestinians with all they got and are waiting, or actually, craving the smallest excuse to unleash their wrath. These is from people who are supposed to be deeply religious, profoundly spiritual and call themselves "God's chosen people."

Needless to say the muslims wreak havoc in the name of Allah. Need I say more? This sudden unrest is not going to go away quickly... and I believe will set out a chain of events (along with other happenings around the globe) that might truly culminate in what is widely talked about these days as the 2012 prophecy.

Is this fight about territory, or is it about religion? Is it about justice vs. injustice or about our lack of tolerance of each other? 

It is time for nations all over the world to get deeply involved in the Palestinian-Israeli issue, and for all leaders of organized religion (which I've always found questionable) to also get involved and make a genuine effort to meet and listen to each other and have a profound dialogue among themselves on how to better this situation, instead of standing in their palaces and waving to the crowds. It is inhumane for Palestinians to continue living the way they live, and Israelis should be able to rest assure that nearest café will not be bombed at any given moment.

Finally we admit it... it's a Recession!

Well... after the Christmas season recorded dismal sales, even though we had killer sales, the kind every woman dreams of, CLEARANCE sales that typically happen in January happening now, we finally have the balls to call this situation a "Recession". What took us sooo long?

In this country we make sure the truth is never too complicated. We are masters at concealing the real truth... masters at blinding ourselves and keeping ourselves entertained until it's too obvious to ignore while in the process, becoming masters at the art of desperately trying to constantly live "like a Rock Star." 

The American people are never really told the truth. I remember when I was younger I really thought that all the news we heard in the American channel was pretty much what happened in the entire world and positively believing that if the news made it out the mouth's of those anchor people, it was certain to be the truth about in matter.

weeheeewww... how far from the truth was I!!!!

It's only a partial view... a particular point of view that is truly communicated to the audience.

We now finally admit that we are in a recession and that we are in deep shit. And.... that it's going to take us longer than we thought, to repair the situation and get out of this mess.

Bush and the size 10 shoes

Today it's all over the news that on Bush's last public appearance in Iraq as President of the United States, he was met with a pair of shoes traveling at great speed in the direction of his head by an Iraqui journalist saying something like "this is a goodbye you dog". 

My first reaction was appalled. The President of any nation, no matter what his political views are, should be respected in public no matter what. But then I thought to myself... if this was Saddam Hussein standing there, wouldn't I wanna throw a shoe at him? Let's get more personal... what if it was Fidel Castro? I'm Cuban-Italian and my family left Cuba a long time ago when the revolution broke out. Now after everything he's done to the Cuban people, wouldn't I wanna throw a shoe at him? God, probably worse...  I would wanna practice a circus act that required daggers and use him as my blindfolded model standing in front of the bull's eye. Then, I think again and I say, NO, because "what is this world coming to" if we don't maintain a certain kind of appropriate behavior, as difficult as it might be considering our feelings toward the person in question, towards the leaders of our nations.

I gotta say though it was pretty fucking funny. I think dogging those shoes was the only move Bush has made that I've been impressed by.

I wonder what they're going to do with the guy? Click here to watch.

How crucial is it to get that 50" Plasma?

Is it worth a human life? I wonder if those people who showed up at Wall Mart at 5am on Black Friday are enjoying their TV right now. I wonder if they can sleep at night. Well, I'm sure they can because they're all probably saying to themselves, as they numb their brains with senseless programing, like Britney Spear's latest documentary, "I didn't do it! It wasn't me who stepped over him, I walked around him."

How important I say, is getting that 50% off? Is it worth killing someone over it? Is it that important that you would see a guy lying on the floor and still walk right over him in order to get to the electronics isle before anyone else? Is it that important that you see this guy on the floor and don't even take 12 seconds to extend your hand and offer to help him up?

I saw the most terrifying thing on TV today. As the body of this 34 year old black man, who had been working at this Wall Mart for just a week, was being wheeled out, DEAD, into the ambulance, people were passing right by on their way to their cars with their huge TV sets (or whatever it is they had purchased) in their shopping carts not even looking, not even taking the time to acknowledge that a human life had been lost and it was literally passing right by them.

The whole thing is DISGUSTING to me. It makes me question my faith in mankind.