June 5, 2008 by Avy.

First off, I would like to re-state that Barack Obama is NOT Black. He will not be the first Black president. So plz just stfu. He’s a halfbreed. A mixy. A mulatto creation. I could care less, but to call him Black (or White) is incorrect and it burns my britches for some reason. It just drives me crazy. Especially since he was raised by his white mama. Have some respect and claim both colors. He’s not one or the other. He’s both!

Now…

I find this chunk of article oddly written. It’s so descriptive that it reminds me of a storybook narrative and not a piece of journalism.

ICED TEA

It was business as usual at the restaurant in a working-class neighborhood in southwest Atlanta.

As on any other day, the mostly black clientele lined up with brown trays to select from a menu that included oxtail, fried fish, collard greens and iced tea, paid the cashier in her glass booth and sat down to eat using plastic knives and forks.

Some customers said Obama’s win was evidence of wider changes that included a softening of barriers between blacks and whites and a broader acceptance that many groups compete in U.S. society.

“It’s a victory for multiculturalism,” said Vedia Jackson, 36, a telecommunications project manager who had driven across town to eat at the restaurant. “This country has changed quite a lot color-wise and it’s time for people of color to be in influential situations.”

“I am not looking at him (Obama) in terms of color. Maybe my parents would have done that. I am looking at him as the best candidate,” she said between mouthfuls of fried fish.

Blacks savor Obama win, fear disappointment | U.S. | Reuters

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June 3, 2008 by Avy.

There’s problems here in America. I’m one of the people who believe you have to take care of your own home before you can help fix someone else’s.

Having that said, I am still deeply saddened when I read about tribes of people being harassed and displaced in other countries.  It hurts my heart that people can’t be above the dollar. People care more about money than right and wrong. Forcing people from villages, denying them their basic right to hunt and drink water on their own land is inhumane. But what is humane anyway? Humanity’s been fucked since the bartering system.

So major corporations and governments remove people from land that’s been a part of the tribe for hundreds, if not thousands, or years. They’ve been there since before “the establishment” so I don’t think anyone has a right to make any indigenous tribe relocate. And for what? Diamonds? Gold?

Not only are these companies removing  people from their homes, they’re introducing disease and killing off the natural resources. It’s all for greed. The rich want to get richer. It’s disgusting.

Survival International

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February 26, 2008 by Avy.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that “a civil war rages” in Iraq and shouldn’t be the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers.

“Americans need to start taking care of Americans,” he said. “We cannot spend a half billion dollars every day in Iraq.”

Senate Advances Bill to Cut Iraq Funding

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February 14, 2008 by Avy.

This article is so cool! Well the subject is, not the article.
Here’s a little taste of the geekin:

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power.

If made into a shirt, the fabric could harness power from its wearer simply walking around or even from a slight breeze, they reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“The fiber-based nanogenerator would be a simple and economical way to harvest energy from the physical movement,” Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who led the study, said in a statement.

The nanogenerator takes advantage of the semiconductive properties of zinc oxide nanowires — tiny wires 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — embedded into the fabric. The wires are formed into pairs of microscopic brush-like structures, shaped like a baby-bottle brush.

One of the fibers in each pair is coated with gold and serves as an electrode. As the bristles brush together through a person’s body movement, the wires convert the mechanical motion into electricity.

“When a nanowire bends it has an electric effect,” Wang said in a telephone interview. “What the fabric does is it translates the mechanical movement of your body into electricity.”

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December 14, 2007 by Avy.

These are not my idea of people who should be deported. Read this story.  It’s bound to make you sick, but it goes to show how ass backwards our immigration system is.

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