Campus Politics

I just gotta blog on this one. This is too big to miss and I don’t want to let the thought go before I have the opportunity to write about it. Last week, I attended another meeting with the San Francisco College Republicans as I have every Tuesday at 1:00PM this semester. There was a showing there of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against The West,” which I’ve seen before and thought it was good the second time around as well. But I recognized a few faces in the audience that I knew were going to stir up some trouble.

If you read my “Life’s Not Fair” post from a short while back, you may remember from the videos of the 9/11 memorial a young guy who declares his communism to the camera very rudely. That kid is Giovanni Jackson, a guy who’s been making trouble for the club as far back as I can remember. You may also remember a professor who talks about using the deaths of 9/11 victims to wage an illegal war. He’s had a rather tough time lately, I understand it, and I’ll get to that in a minute.

Here’s what I can tell you about Giovanni. He’s going around now carrying signs that say we should have a “U.S. Fascism Awareness Week” and brings up a number of points as proof towards our supposed fascism. When I’ve tried to talk to him about the signs before, he’s pretty much blown me off just for being part of the College Republicans club. He shuts off any connection he might get with our group as if our beliefs are a disease. So I decided to take a look at his sign and here’s something I remember pretty clearly among a lot of bogus accusations against our government: a woman’s right to abortion is under fire.

That’s right, folks. Fascism is telling people that they can’t abort their babies. Let’s think about this for a second. A common asset of fascist countries is to have people removed or picked off that they think are rather inconvenient to have around. Abortion is a woman’s right to abort a child because they believe that child’s life is inconvenient for them to have around. Do you see a connection here? I’m not saying abortion makes you a fascist, but I think poor Giovanni here does seem to have more in common with fascism than even he realizes. Then again, he’s a communist. Fascism is his specialty.

The professor in the video hasn’t been named for a very good reason. I don’t even know the guy’s name, nor does the video or any other video in the College Republicans video collection have his name in it. But after the 9/11 memorial video was posted, he received a death threat from a man living in Georgia. How in the heck the guy in Georgia found out who he was after watching the video on Youtube, I have no idea. But he’s blamed the College Republicans for the whole ordeal just because they uploaded a video of him to Youtube. Me, I don’t think it’s their fault at all that a yahoo living in Georgia found their video and went crazy enough to do a people search on the professor, but I do feel kinda sorry for the guy. Death threats are just not cool. I should know.

So now, this takes us back to last Tuesday at the club meeting. I recognized Giovanni in the crowd sitting next to another professor who has been named in one of the College Republican videos as Greg Johnson, the man who basically made burning the American flag legal. And yes, as you can see, he’s a troublemaker as well. Big time.

As the movie ended and the lights went on, Greg and Giovanni got up and demanded a debate over the politics in the movie. So suddenly, NOW they want to talk. And Leigh, the CR president, tells them that they have some executive decisions to be made and will debate them in the hallway in ten minutes. So they put up a fight, shouting all kinds of mean, nasty ugly things, accusing Leigh of being a coward, saying that the United States is the worst country in the world, etc. Then they leave without even waiting and just go on to do their business. This is a college professor we’re talking about here acting like a total yahoo and harassing students. Is this at all professional? I think not.

Minutes later, as the club was headed out to the pub on campus (or so I thought), I was distracted talking to another guy. When I turned back around, the club members were gone. Disappeared. I went to the pub and they weren’t there. I went back up to the meeting room and they weren’t there. Instead, I saw a campus cop who got a report on a disturbance in that room. I told him what had happened, he bought it, he continued looking around after that.

I decided to wait a few more minutes in the quad area to see if I could find any club members, but they weren’t there. So I headed back to the bus as usual. On my way out, I passed by Greg at the “U.S. Fascism Awareness” table. I just smiled at him and said “good day.” After he tossed a begrudged grin back at me, I walked off ending my day with a sense of satisfaction that I had just turned the other cheek on a man who was asking for it. Totally made my day worthwhile.

As for the CR club, whatever happened to them, you ask? I believe I now know. This video was shot last Tuesday after the meeting. I believe this pretty much explains everything:



Giovanni Jackson, a man who proclaims his enemies as fascist while using fascist tactics to silence his opponents and defend his own fascist beliefs. Complete ignorance.

Party Feud Whiner

This new book that’s come out about Gore and Hillary “For Love of Politics,” seems to show that Hillary’s got problems with Democrats other than Obama:

A new book reveals the deep division that developed between Vice President Al Gore and first lady Hillary Clinton during Bill Clinton’s years in the White House.

“For Love of Politics — Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years” by Sally Bedell Smith claims that Hillary not only tried to usurp Al Gore’s role as vice president, she cost him the presidency in the 2000 election by draining funds and resources away from his campaign in favor of her Senate bid.

The bitter feelings between Gore and 2008 presidential candidate Hillary are said to persist to this day, leading some observers to speculate that Gore could enter the 2008 race after all — a move that might prove a final payback to Hillary.

The rift between the then-new first lady and the vice president began to develop just days after Bill Clinton’s inauguration, when he appointed Hillary to head his healthcare task force, according to an excerpt, published in the November issue of Vanity Fair, from Smith’s book.

So they’ve had this feud for a long time. Wonder why. Hillary’s got problems with other Democratic candidates in this upcoming election race. That being said, I doubt she’ll win. But judging by this article, it looks like they seem to think that Hillary was the reason Gore lost the 2000 election and that Gore’s complete and total lack of competence had NOTHING to do with it. And all this time, we thought it was the EEEVIL Bush administration that stole the election. (Note: for anyone who still thinks that, I suggest you check out this website: http://florida2000election.com/)

Look, I hate to be a party pooper here, but why are people still whining about the 2000 election SEVEN years later? Three words: GET…over it. See, like I said, I don’t think Hillary’s going to win next year’s election and I really hope she doesn’t because she seems further to the left than the other candidates. But if she does win, you won’t find me whining about any stupid things like voter fraud even as much as a year later. That being said, once again, get over it. You’ve got bigger things to worry about in the upcoming year than ancient history.

Blue Blur Brawl!

It’s official. I’ma hafta buy me a Wii soon:

http://wii.ign.com/articles/826/826142p1.html

In the last game of the series, Super Smash Bros. Melee, rumors flew around about Sonic being in that one too. Now, it’s confirmed by official gaming websites with video evidence. Combined with the upcoming “Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games,” there is no better time or reason for me to buy a Nintendo Wii.

Now here’s something ELSE interesting. The news was just announced today, October 10th 2007. Check out this video on Youtube that was uploaded on August 19th, 2007:



Skip ahead to about 30 seconds and you’ll see a video clip clearly announcing Sonic as a new game character, alongside tons of other game footage. How is it possible for the person who uploaded this to have known about the news almost two months before it was announced? Someone had to have known…

And do I see other Sonic characters in the game in this video here? Hmm…



UPDATE 10/20/07: Just received notification the other day that the video dated for August is, in fact, a hoax. That being said, chances are the third video is hoax material as well. Just thought I’d be a nice guy and report this.

R-I-P-O-F-F

Let’s play a little game: What movie am I thinking about? It’s a CGI animated family film that takes place undersea with an all fish cast. Some of the supporting cast characters include a pufferfish, a seagull, a starfish, and a bad guy shark who chases the hero fish in an exciting shark chase sequence. Did you guess “Finding Nemo?” Did you guess “Shark Tale?” In that case, you’re wrong on both accounts.



I watched an advertisement for this one this morning when I was watching television. I really find it amazing that some company out there had such a stunning lack of creativity that they actually had to make such a blatant and obvious ripoff. And to make matters worse, they’re actually being distributed by Warner Bros. Don’t worry, folks. It’s not coming to theatres any time soon. This lousy flick is coming to video soon after it’s stunningly poor small release last year. Or at least I assume it was a small release, since I sure don’t remember it. And if that doesn’t say bad movie, consider that the lead voice actor is Freddy Prince Jr., an actor I wouldn’t be so critical of if he didn’t have such a poor taste for what movies to be in.

But the biggest rip off of all has to come from the movie’s original title: “Shark Bait.” I kid you not, folks. Sorry, but I’ll save my “Sharkbait, Ooh hah hah’s” for a much more respectable feature.

Sports Fans

In this country, the closest we get to sports team supporters, or extreme fans per say, is drunk, fat, bald guys in the bleachers who write the name of the team they’re supporting on their naked, hairy chests. But THIS takes dedication: