BATTLE OF THE BANNED

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2)Mommy talks unaffectedly odd upon which you's stampeded
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Keep from harm © November 8, 2006 in accordance with Liam Johnson.

It can't be!

The Financial Action Task Force finds that Greece is Non-Compliant with regard to enacting money laundering legislation.

In a detailed report issued in June 2007, the FATF finds that Greece has taken exemplary action to ensure that:

• The Greek independent Authority for money laundering has no human or other resources, as it only employs 3 people when the law spoke of up to 50; it is underfunded; and it is under-equipped.
• the Authority is not independent at all since it is managed by high ranking employees of certain ministries.

The FATF also finds that laundered money is not $1.6 billion per year as Greece reports, but much higher.

So what did the government do about it since then? Let's take a look...

Last year, the government covered up a scandal of huge proportions, where the public was taken into a scam in the magnitude of €280 million in state bonds.

The government said it's up to the judicial to find the culprits. Mr Zorbas, a public official who was the only one determined to uncover the truth, got into a clash with the government and was summarilly forced into early retirement from the judicial and was placed as head of the committe for black money.

To make things worse, now that the Siemens scandal is raging as who how much money the two leading parties had received from the megacorporation in exchange for public projects, Zorbas owed the government one.

So, in his new position he started digging.

And what did the government do when he found something?

They created a bill that was voted into law the same day (a procedure that normally takes months or years) that disbanded the committe effective immediately and ruled out retired public officials from being chosen to participate in the new committee whenever it might be formed, effectively keeping Mr Zorbas out of reach of sensitive information that might damage any of the two leading political parties.

Mr Zorbas makes us proud. Corrupt governments do not.

But reasonable people would not include the Alabama legislature, which in is great wisdom passed a law banning dildos, vibrators, and other weapons of mass stimulation.

Not content with the law as it stands, Alabama Attorney General Troy King wants the legislature to make the law even more draconian.

I remember Troy from college. He was always a little weird. He used to write frequent letters to the CW, which described in detail his disgust with homosexuals hooking up in public toilets (well before Larry Craig), a subject he seemed to be intimately familiar with, and exhorted readers to go eat at Cracker Barrel, which at the time was under fire for a policy of discriminating against having gay employees. Troy always seemed just a little too obsessed with homosexual perversion.

Alert readers may remember that Loretta Nall sent Troy King a blow up pig:

My suspicion now seems likely to have been confirmed.

Loretta explains

This is not about being gay. This is about being a hypocrite...of the highest order

There is an official denial of the rumor about Troy King now....so I can say what the rumor is.

According to rumors flying around for the last week Troy King, our
rabidly homophobic, anti-sex toy, Sunday School teaching, pro-execution Republican Attorney General is GAY! And I don't mean that as in happy either. I'd bet he is anything but happy right now. In fact, according to two sources he is about to resign. [..]

I have been sitting on this story for about a week. Truth is I am SORE from having to sit on it so long....but not as sore as Troy King is.

Loretta elaborates:

I have some friends in pretty high places in Alabama politics so I called one of them up with the juicy details. They told me they heard a rumor about his sexual orientation some six months ago from a former reporter with a large, credible newspaper in Alabama. I also know that reporter and knew them to be very credible. The rumor at the time was that Troy's mystery man was his old college roommate who he gave a position to when he took over the AG office in 2004. Supposedly when Troy was out of town so was lover boy.

The story then became that the mystery man was a young man who had just graduated from Troy University and was the Homecoming King(no pun intended) (God that gets confusing...Troy King with the homecoming king who graduated from Troy) and that was who the wife walked in on. Then a few weeks later Troy and his boy toy from Troy were spotted at the YMCA (not kidding) engaging in....ummmm....inappropriate activities. Yeah...at the YMCA...made famous by the Village People. Apparently Troy has no inkling of what it means to be 'discreet'.

I'm betting they are both true. If Troy King can be a closet gay and Alabama Attorney General at the same time then there exists in this universe the infinite possibility for him to be a promiscuous, closet gay, Alabama Attorney General. But apparently closet and promiscuous don't go so well together. But, hell, no one is claiming that he's smart are they?

As far as the significance of this story, Loretta explains:

There are so many things that make this a delicious story. Gay Sex, high ranking elected officials who are rabidly anti-gay in public but turn out to be gay in private, they get caught at the YMCA (of all places), the whole sex toy incident, the 'below the belt' legislation that Troy has made a focal point during his time in office, his desire to be the guy who injects death row inmates with deadly chemicals. I bet this is why he objects to DNA testing, ya know? Wonder where all they would find his DNA? It's really not much different than what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewenski...except Troy is a Republican and his mystery partner is GAY!! Lordy, does it get any better than this?

Head On Radio Network is one of several sites making video and musical parodies which take advantage of Troy King's embarrassment.

Another one is found at the myspace page for Mock 5

Alabama Queen

Troy King has refused to comment on the allegations, claiming that his kids would be subject to teasing.

I knew she liked Jesus, but does she like smoking pot?!

I don't want to be a rumor-starter like fat blogger, Perez Hilton, but this is a video that some Disney twinks made and posted online. Then MILEY CYRUS (stoned or something!) cuts in making fun of a bitch!

Apparently MILEY is pissed because this other girl done stole her boyfriend, NICK JONAS. (YUM!)

That little Hannah Montana White Trash can be SASSY! I kind of like it. But to be fair -- this kind of stuff seems very UNChristian, girl!

Off to the club. Wish me luck!

UPDATEEE: Okay, I;m back rom the club and I am drunker than shit so just deal on that. I didn;t even think about it before. Are MILEY and MANDY a couple? It's very fashionable aparently!!!!!

3 iulie. CAF anuleaza penalizarea cu sapte puncte a Stelei si interdictia dictata asupra lui gigi becali, de a mai intra pe orice stadion din Romania, timp de doi ani. Ziarele de sport scriu o zi-doua pe acest subiect, dar se linistesc repede. Rapidistii incearca sa-si zbiere frustrarea pe unde pot, dar cine ii mai baga in seama? Tot ce ne mai interesa era daca Adi va fi MVP la Euro si cat va tine umarul lui Cristi. A tinut, dar asta n-a facut din "Aditza" vreun MVP :D Ma rog, detalii...

23 iulie. Ziua mea de nastere :D Hai, chiar ati crezut ca despre asta vreau sa scriu? Nu, e vorba despre o BOMBoana de presa. Surpriza: la 3 (trei!) saptamani distanta, cazul "Valiza" revine in actualitate! Va vine sa credeti? Insusi redactorul-sef al GSP (si TV?) face o dezvaluire SENZATIONALA si presa "de sport" ia foc! Antenele sunt "fierte" pe subiect, dar in pauza au timp berechet pentru spoturile GSPTV. Doar se va lansa azi, ati uitat? ;)

25 iulie. Ei da, v-a picat fisa (din valiza)? Ce COINCIDENTA!!! :D Ziua lansarii noului post de televiziune s-a nimerit in mijlocul unuia dintre cele mai mari scandaluri din fotbalul dambovitean postdecembrist! Ce norocosi sunt astia de la Gsp! Au dat de subiectul asta chiar cu doua zile inainte de lansarea postului de televiziune! Fantastic! Si unde mai pui ca, exact in ziua cand va incepe sa emita, Tolo face cea mai mare dezvaluire in acest caz!!! EXTRAODINAR, EXPLOZIV!!! Sincer, domn' regizor, cred ca fara DDTV nu o mai scoti la capat. :D Ce tot atata DD si GSP? UN CT, ce-are? ;)

Acu' sincer, cam de cand credeti ca o tine Tolo "infasurata" si se roaga de Florea ala sa nu fuga cu ea la .ro? :)

Exercitiu de imaginatie: Ce subiect ar fi gasit gazetarii, pentru lansare? (pentru ca trebuiau sa "explodeze" cumva, nu? :D ). Putea fi mai nimerit decat unul cu urmatoarele tag-uri: Nasu', Mitica, mititica, gigi becali, "Valiza" cu BANI?, militian, pucarias, demisie, cearta, scandal, razboi!? ;)

Eu sunt frustrat: de ce Tolo ai asteptat sa treaca ziua mea? De ce? De ce? De ce? Crezi ca la 24 de ani nu eram suficient de copt sa aflu, in sfarsit :D , ca Nasu' e mai nas ca niciodata si ca Lupescu ii e mai nas lui Florea decat el? :P

...De fapt, ce mai conteaza?, cand oricum postul, asta am inteles (de la tine), ca va fi "prins" de vreo 32,74% din 76,69%, din cei 81,47% din aia cu televizoare...

PS: Scuze pentru excesul de imoticoane, dar daca asa e modelu', ma conformez si eu ;)

If you had checked the French news yesterday, you would've seen at least one headline about what I like to call the "hot baby Zoe affair" (I know what you perverts are thinking!). Because it was all over the place, I can't just give you one link...

But this is one that is rather dramatic: Hot Baby Zoe Affair

The chronology of the affair is as follows:

• 8:30AM— the father of baby Zoe parked his car, as usual, in the factory parking lot, where he works. Unbeknownst to him, baby Zoe was still in the back seat, sitting quietly. The father forgot to drop her off at her babysitter's house after dropping his 5 year-old son off at preschool.

• 10:00AM— the babysitter, worried because Zoe was never dropped off, left a message on the family's home phone, but no one was there to receive it.

• Around 5:00PM— the father leaves work and gets into the car. He does not realize the dead baby Zoe in the back of the car until he arrives at the preschool, to pick up his son. With the child in his arms, he runs to the neighboring fire station, crying "I've killed her! I've killed her!"

According to the autopsy that took place yesterday, baby Zoe died of dehydration between 12 and 2 in the afternoon.

Many people are puzzled as to why the father completely forgot his daughter in the car-- many people are pointing to stress, but others are saying that is no excuse for irresponsibility.

A fellow employee is quoted as saying:

"At work, everyone is talking about the father. I believe it's also because people don't want to talk about the parking lot. Thousands of people pass by there everyday. So one prefers to think about the father's problems rather than the death of the little girl there, right next to us in the parking lot."

The name of the father or the family wasn't revealed for privacy reasons I'm guessing.

And that was the Hot Baby Zoe Affair. The moral of the story? Use protection!

Dis-moi ton avis...

There comes a point where you know that no one in the administration will be held accountable for his/her offenses: lying about the war, authorizing torture (just this once), and (oh yeah) ignoring warnings of an imminent attack on U.S. soil. And those are just the criminal offenses. Let's not forget the incompetence.

So you read articles like this, and you feel the familiar outrage start to bubble up. But you can't really get outraged anymore because you aren't surprised. You expect it now. And you know nothing will be done about it.

Oh, they'll be hearings and speeches and faux anger, but in the end, it will be business as usual for the corporate puppets of Congress. They'll hush it up and move on to more important things, like giving the oil companies another tax break.

And all the American people can do is sit back, helpless, and read article after article about how their country is being turned into a parody.

Pofta buna!

PS Daca ati ajuns aici dupa taguri aflati ca sunteti victima unui experiment :)

Poneii sunt fiinte extraordinare, mai ales cand sunt folositi, de Nuclear Fairy, ca pretext de exorcizare fantastica a fascismului. Dupa ce presa romaneasca a dat curs initiativei indoielnice a unui roman din diaspora, John Gabrian Marinescu, in care acesta acuza expozitia colectiva "Freedom for Lazy People", anuntata si aici si organizata de Institutul Cultural Roman din New York, ca instiga la pedofilie, rasism si antisemitism, Institutul are un raspuns pe masura.

Sa te superi pe o serie de opere de arta contemporana e ca si cum japonezii s-ar ofusca daca ar citi pe peretii oraselor cum ca "Japanese People are Aliens". Cum ar putea, cineva, sa fie deranjat de zvastica delicata pe care-o poarta pe fese un ponei roz?

Iata si textul integral al replicii semnate de Cristi Neagoe:

New York, 23 iulie 2008 – Publicaţia românească New York Magazin publică în numărul 580 un articol semnat de John Gabrian Marinescu despre expoziţia Freedom for Lazy People pe care ICRNY a vernisat-o pe 18 iunie 2008. Preluat de unele instanţe ale mass-media româneşti ca un subiect de scandal, articolul incriminator necesită câteva lămuriri din partea Institutului Cultural Român din New York.

Continuând politica sa curatorială de susţinere a artelor vizuale româneşti emergente, ICRNY a invitat la New York trei dintre cei mai activi şi mai provocatori street artişti români: IRLO, Omar şi Nuclear Fairy. Aceştia sunt cunoscuţi în România pentru lucrările lor de pe pereţii marilor oraşe, care pot fi însă  întâlnite şi în spaţii precum librăriile Cărtureşti din Bucureşti şi Cluj, terasa Teatrului Naţional din Bucureşti, calcanul de pe strada Arthur Verona, skate park-ul din Herăstrău, clubul Amsterdam (fost Cina), Metroul Bucureşti, clubul Cuba din Piteşti, reşedinţe personale sau spaţii comerciale din întreaga ţară, dar şi în publicaţii precum ziarul Cotidianul, revista de creaţie contemporană Omagiu, revista Hardcomics, jurnalul ilustrat Aooleu, revista TimeOut Bucureşti.

Expoziţia Freedom for Lazy People a avut parte de susţinerea Wooster Collective, cel mai important site de street art din SUA, atrăgând un public numeros şi divers în Galeria Română. Printre aceştia, câţiva dintre membrii comunităţii din Murray Hill au ţinut să mulţumească ICRNY pentru energia pozitivă pe care această expoziţie o aduce cartierului lor, lucru confirmat şi în titlul unei relatări din prestigioasa revistă americană New York Magazine (a nu se confunda cu publicaţia românească menţionată mai sus): “Romanian Graffiti Artists Make Murray Hill Even More Fabulous”.

Mai mult decât atât, cei trei au fost invitaţi de scenografa Marina Drăghici şi de regizorul-coregraf Bill T. Jones (laureat al Tony Award şi un nume de referinţă pe Broadway) să picteze sala teatrului 37 Arts, unde va avea loc, la începutul lunii august, premiera spectacolului dedicat legendei muzicii africane, Fela Kuti.

Merită remarcat că este pentru prima oară când un institut cultural european organizează o expoziţie de street art în SUA (conform Sarei şi lui Marc Schiller, fondatorii Wooster Collective), şi că această formă de manifestare artistică este prin excelenţă reprezentativă pentru libertatea creaţiei.

Argumentele folosite de John Gabrian Marinescu pentru a discredita expoziţia organizată de Institutul Cultural Român din New York reiau teme de mult consumate în critica de artă şi care apar astăzi, prin anacronismul şi agresivitatea lor, pur şi simplu tendenţioase. În acest sens, ne surprinde că redactorii unor publicaţii precum Evenimentul Zilei, Ziua, ai televiziunii Antena 3 sau ai portalului Ziare.com le preiau cu titluri senzaţionaliste (cuvinte cheie: „sex”, „zvastică”, „securişti”) şi le descriu ca reprezentative pentru viziunea întregii comunităţi româneşti din diaspora americană. Ne vedem datori, aşadar, să reluăm aceste teme şi să ne explicăm opţiunea.

John Gabrian Marinescu este revoltat mai întâi de câteva dintre desenele şi obiectele din expoziţie, pe care le consideră expresii ale „sexului şi ale actului împreunător în sine” (sic!). Or, sexualitatea este departe de a fi principala temă a expoziţiei. S-ar putea vorbi, mai degrabă, despre o exhuberanţă a experienţei proxime pe care cei trei artişti o transpun instant, focalizând pe detalii semnificative, ca printr-un Polaroid organic. S-ar putea discuta despre reciclarea trăirii în cotidian, despre încărcarea ei alegorică prin „reprezentări religioase viu colorate, şerpi, păianjeni, animale-oameni, sloganuri şi simboluri”, după cum observă Catrinel Bartolomeu în articolul citat mai sus.

Dar Marinescu alege să interpreteze ceea ce vede printr-o prismă infernală, ca şi când cele şapte păcate capitale şi-ar fi dat locul de întâlnire în Galeria Română din New York: „o păpuşă din cârpă, înfăţişând un tânăr de 14-15 ani, fără haine, cu organul genital vizibil”, „un urangutan, cu chipul negru (probabil o aluzie la negrii Americii)”, „o jucărie, un căluţ care în porţiunea dorsală, pe pulpa spate, are pusă o zvastică germană (să fie anti-semitism, adică ură faţă de poporul evreu măcelărit de hitlerişti?)”. Sunt afirmaţii tendenţioase ce reprezintă acuzaţii făţişe de pedofilie, rasism şi antisemitism. Precizia identificării vârstei unei păpuşi şi viteza cu care morile de vânt devin monştri pentru domnul Marinescu ne-ar produce o stare de ilaritate, dacă astfel de aberaţii nu ar putea fi luate în serios de un public slab informat. În ceea ce priveşte monştrii, găsim mereu nou adagiul lui Goya din Capriciul 43.

Întâmplător, „oroarea erogenă” din Galeria Română are loc în aceeaşi perioadă în care la Brooklyn Museum se încheie expoziţia lui Takashi Murakami şi la Muzeul Guggenheim sunt expuse lucrările Louisei Bourgeois, ambii explorând intens corpul uman şi sexualitatea explicită, de la proiectile de spermă la păduri de falusuri. Atât frumuseţea, cât şi grotescul se află în ochiul privitorului.

În beţia sa naţionalistă în care multiculturalismul este o crimă, Marinescu se leagă, printr-un frumos argumentum ad hominem, de numele celor trei artişti, afirmând nici mai mult nici mai puţin decât că “nu sună a fi tradiţionale româneşti”. Pentru cineva care îşi spune “John Gabrian”, ne-am aştepta ca această chestiune să fie irelevantă. Însă în cursul zilei de azi am primit un telefon în care am fost anunţaţi că următorul editorial din New York Magazin se va concentra asupra etniei cetăţenilor români invitaţi în cadrul programelor ICRNY (cităm din Robert Horvath, interlocutorul nostru: “în 2008 nu aţi invitat decât evrei, maghiari şi alţi neromâni”).

„Expoziţia NU ne face cinste nouă, românilor, şi nici artei sau culturii noastre. Cu atât mai mult, ea nu va contribui niciodată la schimbarea imaginii României în bine”, afirmă cu emfază John Gabrian Marinescu. Nu cu mult timp în urmă, Corina Şuteu, directoarea ICRNY, primea de la Biroul Naţional de Turism al României pentru America de Nord următorul mesaj: „Dorim să vă semnalăm faptul că  prezentarea în filmul Occident (r. Cristian Mungiu) pe care ICRNY îl promovează a aspectelor cu privire la sărăcie, intoleranţă, gândire retrogradă, pesimismul tinerilor în legătură cu viitorul României nu serveşte la conturarea unei imagini pozitive pentru România şi implicit diminuează efectele eforturilor de stimulare a circulaţiei turistice din America de Nord către România”.

Vom relua aici răspunsul Corinei Şuteu privind ce este şi ce nu este reprezentativ pentru cultura română: „Arta nu mai este azi în România un instrument de propagandă, iar valoarea artistică a unui film, a unei piese de teatru, a unei expoziţii nu mai rezidă, din fericire, în nevoia autorităţilor de a zugrăvi un prezent şi un viitor luminos. Dar oricât de importante ar fi victoriile artiştilor români care s-au rupt de tradiţia păşunistă şi oricât de multe discursuri se ţin despre ei, cu retorică goală şi cu pompă, artele româneşti vor fi obstrucţionate pentru încă multă vreme de mentalităţi contaminate, scăldate în utopii naţionaliste, profund antidemocratice şi obtuze.”

Vom oferi aici o mostră de logică perversă a celor care se ascund sub umbrela “comunităţii româneşti din New York”, culeasă dintr-un email primit astăzi pe adresa ICRNY: „Sant de acord cu libertatea artistica si libertatea de expresie garantata de " Bill of Rights"din Constitutia Americana, dar intr-o galerie Americana particulara......NU INTR-O GALERIE  ROMANEASCA CE APARTINE UNUI INSTITUT AL  DIPLOMATIEI  SI IMAGINEI CULTURII ROMANESTI SI CARE TREBUIE SA NE REPREZINTE IN MOD CEL PUTIN ONORABIL. ROMANIA, TARA NOASTRA, IN STRAINATATE!”. Semnatarul acestei scrisori, Paul Mircea Goreniuc, se alătură unor personaje precum John Gabrian Marinescu, Robert Horvath, Rodica Perciali sau Grigore N. Culian, autointitulaţi „reprezentanţi ai comunităţii româno-americane” şi care exclamă insistent şi, uneori, cu violenţă, pătrunşi poate de înflăcărare patriotică: „să se revizuiască, primesc, dar să nu se schimbe nimic!” (Caragiale)

Sunt foarte curios daca mass-media romaneasca, in isteria care o caracterizeaza, va reactiona prompta in publicarea dreptului la replica al ICR New York.