Pat Robertson : Haiti in a Rush to Limbaugh with Robert Pattinson

My thoughts on Limbaugh and Robertson fiasco.

I think what they said was rather ridiculous, but sadly one thing I don’t think the statements were, are signs of them lacking humanity. These two people spoke their thoughts, their human thoughts.

human thoughts illustrated

I will begin with Pat Robertson. Even if you don’t believe in the pact of the devil,  (and if you do you probably also are against Robert Pattison and all the other vampire craze instigators since we all know vampires are really demons and of the devil) but do in some Religion and Deity, then you may believe the earthquake was allowed to go down. Or it is some sort of Divine plan beyond our understanding. Or retribution for something or a continued battle between good and evil where evil won out or a test of our and their faith in him.

It is well documented that the impoverished tend to be more religious than the well off, Haiti is thought to be composed by around  80% Roman Catholics, 16% Protestant and the other 4%, other ( Religion in Haiti though some Vodou is present this is more of a cultural thing like the belief that one is not complete without a favorite football team or turkey on thanksgiving).

Pat Robertson said what he believes. He believes he has found the One way to human salvation. He opened with a comment on the fact more buildings having collapsed than not may be a blessing in disguise due to the rebuilding that may come, said some stuff about Napoleon the 3rd and a pact with the devil for freedom, then finished with saying we need to pray for them and hoping they all turn to god.

Haiti was emancipated from under Napoleon ‘Complex’ Bonaparte, not his Nephew Napoleon III, so we can say he was wrong. Wrong, but not inhuman, for to err is human to forgive divine. So we can say Robertson believes that the pact with the devil may only have been forgiven by a 100% christian population . Now since ) what would be ‘inhuman’ is if he kept this a secret. If did not do all in his power to convert everyone to this way to salvation. Felt he was safe so there was no need to speak out on this this earthquake as a warning, lest some other less than 100% christian country (USA is about 75%, though no devil pact is on record, besides record box office numbers and neilsen ratings since society sure does loooove vampires) have some terror befall them.

Rushing on to Rush (YEAH I SAID IT, WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT!?!)…It’s Rush, c’mon now. He prolly felt upstaged by Pat and felt he better say something soon. And this Devil thing, quite the headline grabber that is, what on earth could top that, what could hurt the most, oh wait I know, you know, Rush knew even Col. Jessup* knows. The Truth. Nothing hurts more than the truth. OFF COURSE OBAMA IS TRYING TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS!!!

Please, no one anywhere should deny this isht. It is politics, politicians everywhere are trying to gain points on this. Is this the only reason they are helping? No, certainly not, this is a tragedy. Is how they are helping dictated by politics? Ah, Heeeeeellllzzzzzzzz yeth. Are countries looking at other countries to see what they give so they can match it and not seem to be slacking and not as caring? Of course not, that would be terrible to do, measure compassion. Are countries putting their political processes on hold so they can concentrate on Haiti and wait for their populations to settle back down and know what laws and such are being enacted and passed? eh whats that behind you?!?!

So Rush spoke the truth, it may be more heated because of what ‘colour’ Obama’s father was, who said it and the fact that there is that whole Obama won partially because of the light skin and no negro dialect.(that deserves its own rAnt in and of itself but all ill say is if Obama looked and sounded like flava flav  and said everything Obama said, Black people would have been the first to say “No, You Can’t!!!”)

Do you know anyone on Facebook with a help Haiti message? (my thoughts on Facebook status messages Jew know what Gaza did!?! / “(Your name) is my Hero” : best Facebook status message ever!” ) I do, not as annoying this time as other times.

I remember watching the news with my mom right after it happened, as the science guys gave us the science and the first twitter pictures (another thing that usually angers me but since its to good use and not people named after mexican alcohol use) were coming in to CNN. We discussed how late this happened, how long it will take for help to get there, how densely populated it is and finally just how high the death-toll will obviously be. As CNN and the other news outlets began to deploy their reporters, I thought to myself “not watching a news channel for a week.” I would rather check in on online sources than the 24 hour coverage. People will be dead, people will be helping, people will be angry, people will be praying, people will be confused, people will be crying.

My issue with this is the timing. If all the concern and aide that is pouring into Haiti had been given slowly and steadily over the last 50 years, the death-toll today would not be what it is 40,000 still buried and 100,000 feared dead so 140,000 by bbc internationals estimate an hour ago(I watched the news at diner time because there is literally nothing on most of the time, even on satellite TV). In a year or less most of us will return to being human and forget about Haiti and other places that need help. If being human is showing concern for people only after terrible things happen, then we should either strive to be more than human, or in the least break down these borders and let people know that terrible things are happening all the time.

• *    ”A Few Good Men.” Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, goodness.

• Cruise ship lands in Haiti. Self Serving people sure to be up in arms. Tourism is a huge industry for Haiti. The cruise ship landing there now at this time is so horrible because the people are suffering instead of just living their regular lives that were not as comparatively hellish to those on the cruise ship. We should actually have a few week ban on all vacations anywhere.

Ah, back rAnting, see i am human too as I too had this reaction to somehting terrible to come back to rAnt, I will try to add an illustration if time allows but now lets wor to be “More Human than

Obama : “…he’s a Jackass”, Kanye : That’s just his…

…white half talking. Many of you have seen the Kanye eruption and if not have been caught in the avalanche of response to it. If not here is the gist of it, Taylor Swift, young mega famous in her own right country singer, wins an award that Beyonce was also nominated for.  Kanye gets up right in the middle of the cute , lil, rich, still famous, still getting the award, girl’s speech and gets on the stage. He then proceeds to… well to be Kanye, may have been even more Kanye thanks to the bottle of Hennessey* he was pictured with holding during the night… though if this is what a bottle of Hennessey results in, They should give every one a bottle of Hennessey at the start of the Red carpet and not let them into the venue unless its half finished by the time they get to the doors, I would watch more Awards show’s, so would you and so would the people that tell Obama about it.

Then the world then looses its isht. or at least most people with an Internets connection.

Most people seem to agree on 3 things. One,  Beyonce had the better video and won an award later for it. Two, Kanye was wrong for how and when he went about saying it. Three, they are now no longer a fan of Kanye.

Here are my thoughts.

One, on an aspect of video itself then yes Beyonce was more… entertaining, with the choreography and what not, as for the content I have previously rAnted about that. Many people feel the same, but apparently enough of the people who vote for things like the music awards liked Taylor’s video. this could be used as a what happens when you dont’  exercise voting rights campaign.  More people may have liked Beyonce’s but many of those people probably feel awards shows are cowdookie so don’t vote. Then there is the whole MTV execs ‘Beyonce is already winning an award let us let Taylor get some love too and increase our fanbase.’ which is an option that falls into the bovinefecesiness of  award shows

Two say what you want Kanye, it’s your right just as it is his right to say whatever he wants whenever he wants now i know by law there are situations where it may not be allowed,  slanderous and what not, but in this case i do not think anyone has a case against him. Kanye got up and said what many people felt and though i felt a little bad for T squints, T swizzle or whatever other cute name the tall blonde hottness that is Taylor Swift, I was mostly humoured by the situation. Kanye got up and spoke what was on many peoples minds, I for one am sick of this super cordial way people are expected to be… more on this soon.

Three. I will continue to be a fan of good music, well more specifically, music I find entertaining and good to listen to. I will continue to be a fan of Kanye’s music. This latest outburst does not affect this. Ask yourself why it would , is it that before this he would come over to your house with brownies and play X-Box with you? Now this guy you knew so well is all of a sudden on the list of people that you would no longer let in your home?!! This ‘prince among men’ that has never previously shown and signs of having an ego, of speaking out when he sees fit, or of course of comporting himself in bland award show ’smile for the person you think is less talented that just won ‘ fashion. Wrong! this is Kanye, may have been a drunk Kanye, but this Kanye made all the hits that you listened to before, are listening to now and will listen to in the future, You are right Mr. President, the man is seemingly a Jackass, but he is a dyamn talented one, much more talented than the garden variety jackasses i meet in my day to day life. Next time Kanye makes a hott track im listening to it, whether he just joined a monastery the day before or  is in now doomed to hell after he was caught in St. Peters square peeing on the pope

T Swizzle cuteness:

Really let it go people this event is not going to leave her scarred for life… any lil inconvenience can be challenged into her country singing.

Soon no one shall be safe from the TWEET???? we should have let Sylvester eat them all when we still had the chance. Here is the Obama Article

*for a great picture account of Kanye and the Hennessey bottle click here Buzzfeed

The consummate professional that Beyonce is let t squints get back up on stage and finish her speech but Sasha Fierce luvs her some Kanye. Mrs Z and Mr West ego stroking

Real Family or Familiar Relatives?

Just attended my first wedding, not counting the several attended as a child with my parents not only did I attend but I was one of the groomsmen for My older brother.  Now he knows how I feel about weddings and wearing suits but after 9 years of no suit and a few wedding invite turn downs I was there, and had a great time. There is a lot i plan on going into surrounding weddings marriage and other events that occurred around this occasion…there may be time for that. I would like to make time to focus on what weddings are about*, Family.

I am now more than I have ever believe that there is a large difference  between being related to someone and being ones families. Not so much you say? Does an adopted kid with 2 loving parents not have a family? If blood relations were a prerequisite for family then marriage would not make one family or on the other hand we would all be related, well in the biblical and most other religious senses we would be due to shared ancestry. What exactly do you define as family? 

As marriage is an extension of dating and that aspect of relationships I will use observations from dating in order ignite some thought in whom we consider family. My mother, brother Sister and I moved to America in 1994. I was 11 and it was the 3rd continent we had lived in. Never lived in one place long enough to develop the urge to have a clique, let alone the seemingly unspoken rule in Western culture that men and women can not be friends without ulterior motive (At least once the ulterior motives for hugs no longer end at a quick snapping of the bra… for her little pain and your laughing pleasure as you run off) I was one of the few guys who had female friends.

Girls would often come to me to discuss relationship issues they have and eventually the guys did too in their own ways the same to some level. AS we all got older the issues remained, which worried me as before the issues sometimes stemmed from the inexperience and fleetingness of crushes and high-school flings, but now the same was coming form serious feelings from supposedly ‘experienced’ people and there was potential for actual marriage and family making. A friend that was dating another friend of mine came to me for some advice on another of the similar issues and complaints that they both had for their multiple year on and off relationship. I asked them if they considered me a good friend, they said yes. Then i asked them to think of the things the person they are with had done and continues to do. Then i asked them if we would still be friends if i did even a fraction of those things. They said no. Then i asked them to think about why they let someone who is supposedly more important to them than all of their friends get away with things more things that you would let all their combined friends do to them. Why do many of us hold the one we are with to lower standards than we do our friends? Could it be that we are holding them to the ‘family’ standard, since they could potentially be family?

This family standard I refer to is that of letting them get away with the grimiest isht just because they are family. It is the feeling that brings random 5th and 6th cousins out of the woodwork when someone gets ahead in life. It is the feeling that would probably have my mother saying i didn’t do it even if she caught me standing there with blood on one hand and in the other a knife. I refuse to have it be the feeling that results in me having a wife. And neither should you or anyone else. 

One example is hardly enough to convince anyone of anything so here is some more. I had a great time meeting my Mothers sisters again after 15 long years. I mixed up the names of her two eldest sisters and while we laughed as they corrected me, I crouched down and looked up at them and said maybe I would have recognized them better from that angle as it was the way I knew them for the 5 years i was in Kenya.

The first time I saw a blood relative was when one auntie came to visit us in France when i was about 3. I don’t even really remember it but i’m told it happened, then from 5.5 to 11 years of age, lived in Kenya. now this may be an African thing but i never had the shortage of Aunties and Uncles growing up, actually Miriam, half malay – half italian expressed the same thing happening. Close family friends to colleagues were called as such by younger people. Still to this day I have to ask if there is an actual relation. Well at least with the families of african descent, the few non african aunties and uncles it was rather easy to tell… although by now there are a few married in.

With this marriage there are now a bunch of people to the already large number of blood relatives that know me less than the bartenders at Cafe Peru (a little bar i go to when I’m in Rome). Saying this is not to point a finger anywhere, circumstances just resulted in near relatives not being in a situation to provide what ‘family’ typically does. My mother always and continues to push in the connection, but to her, my relatives and to you that are reading this I did not live without people who helped, who cared, who laughed, who cried, who supported, who led by example. I had many friends, I was not without family. I say to the new relatives and the old ones, I appreciate any positive feelings you have towards me but I would cherish feelings built on a foundation of friendship and actually knowing me and not just falling back on a social niceties. 

I would rather someone assumed the worst about me and left me alone than tried to be a part of my life by assuming good things about me.

Ok my new lil sister told me earlier today about reading Rantatonne and said i think too much, so let me get to the point. I say little sister, not  because I love and care for my older brother and he and she love and care for each other. I say sis not because my Mother has taken her in to the nest and i don’t find it weird when she calls her mom. I say sis unit not because  she has become the older sister my other lil sister has wanted for her 21 years of living with 2 older brothers. I do not say family because having her in the house is like being in the house alone. I say sister for all these things and more, because she is just that, my friend, and my sis, Stella.

 

im the lil one in the very center my brother is the one on the far right in the blue. the others are cousins

 

 

Merriam-Webster dictionary definitions for Family and Relative

*weddings pertain to be about this new Family when in many cases we all know it is about more. Money, religion, social constructs, alliances, power etc etc One of the things i find odd is when people say they want to be a princess on their wedding day. They forget that pretty much most royal weddings are not for love and in many cases decided far before the princess even has an idea of what marriage is, in some cases the princesses did not even meet whom they were to be married to and they had no say in the matter whatsoever.

The wedding website, a gift from me to them Will and Stella

My brothers Blog, read his thoughts on the wedding and other things Fairytale Matrimonio (Wedding) nella Città Eterna

 

Welcome back to Rantatonne, apologies for the almost year long silence. The emotional content of this rAnt may be partially due to listening to the following song while rAnting

Funny Games : Moovie Review

Some interesting cinematography, Some ok music, Some good depiction of the bland proper upper class lifestyle (where people have million dollar homes they go to when escaping their other million dollar homes)

All in all a rather crap movie. Watch “A Clockwork Orange,” if you haven’t, and save yourself the disappointment that is “Funny Games.” If you’ve watched “Orange”, re-watch it or read the book and save yourself the disappointment that is “Funny Games.” Maybe this is a version of Clockwork for the new age (ie those that have nto heard of Orange)…but for me the calling each other different names like Beavis and Butthead and other odd references, although made some sense with them pointing out violent and odd media and also certain social buttons such as the weight issue, it was…well not enough. Maybe i’m getting old, maybe this would have been better if i had not seen Orange.

 

*just found out it was a remake of a 1997 australian film, weak. I may give the original a watch but i doubt ill re-watch the remake.

Muslim Women forced to cover up due to Hijab!

First, WTF!?!

Now on to the rAnt. I will venture to say that most of the women that wear it do so proudly.  With as much pride as most church-goers have when they imbue the blood and body of Christ.

I have met many Muslim women that do not practice hijab as strongly as others if at all. I have also met many non-Muslim women that choose to dress as conservatively as many if following hijab. On the other spectrum there are many women that wear near to nothing. Dressing provocatively and such…wench-like to be more exact.  And when they walk around those that do not ogle them tend to scorn them. Or ogling followed by scorn. These women may have been influenced by their societies but their fashion choice is essentially just that, a choice. Different ends of the spectrum, both being questioned by society for their appearance, could the issue more be society wanting for people to conform to a comfy middle?

Sure some certain countries tie this belief into the laws of the country and even foreigners visiting are held to the same standard but what is so wrong with that? How different is that from going to someones house and speaking the language,  driving on their side of the road, eating the foods they find customary. But who would honestly claim that religion and state are separate. You want to say that a religious person who goes into politics will not include his beliefs, the very way he believes is the best and right way to live, in his choices for himself, his family, friends and constituents. Could these mostly Muslim states just closely follow the guidelines of the words they feel were given to them by an omnipotent being, words which humans should not feel able to change according to changing times. Living in Italy the effect of the Vatican and Catholicism can be strongly felt in the countries general policies, yet on international women’s day, there was a 5 minute spot of various scenes of naked women on a regular public television show at 6 in the afternoon (how this celebrated Women’s day, i do not know, but that is another rAnt) I firmly believe that this would not have been allowed to air on American Television, although such people are Paris Hilton as well known for her sexual antics as anything else she has kinda sorta done are given ample time to shine. I feel this ‘censorship’ in America is on the same line of thought as that of hajib, as i believe they are both religiously given morals. Both try to avoid unwanted effects of overexposure of sex.

I am personally very attracted by eyes. In many cases the full hajib tends to frame the face and eyes. I have found myself speechless by a girl with what i consider amazing eyes. Many men and women love other physical attributes as much as i do eyes. And as many men and women can recall some time or other when they hung around a situation or person due to their physical attributes in a situation when you would otherwise have left. I got by the speechlessness to find great people behind the eyes that once struck me dumb, but the distracting qualities of physical attributes are undeniable.

Are they some more negative effects of the practice and belief in hajib, yes they are, just as with any other belief. the human quotient usually finds a way to twist something that was initially intended for good purposes to something negative.  times do change, beliefs and practices that once made sense may not after a few years let alone thousands.  I agree with that and encourage continued discourse on the subject but for a statements such as “Muslim women are forced to practice Hijab,” I have nothing but scorn.

I said in the previous rAnt that the next one would be about positivisms or sexism, this rAnt was nto about that but i have a few more women related rAnts that i would like to share besides it is a rAnt and i can not be held responsible for  all guarantees made whilst in rAntmode! and i believe that those who as regular a reader to care will also be happy enough with this rAnt. For the bonus, after clicking continue reading below, you will find a little story i came    up with to show the relative nature of the whole judging peoples physical appearance as well as a link to a story that has never made me prouder of my highschool education!

WTF!!! NY Post calls Obama A chimp?!

PeTA , of whom no love of mine is lost on, is however not the reason for this rAnt. the following is an excerpt from an article i read today:

NY Post apologizes — to some — over Obama cartoon

NEW YORK – After two days of protests, the New York Post apologized Thursday for a cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police. But the newspaper also said its longtime antagonists exploited the image for revenge.

entire of the article

WTF, does not cover my reaction to this! How on earth does this count as an attack on President Obama. I would go into it more but do not want this to be the first full rAnt on about Obama. When will this insanity end? Are they claiming that the white half of Obama is also being portrayed as a chimp by this cartoon? 

I knew the whole ‘black’ president thing would be the cause of some odd situations but come on? this is a reach by all standards. Who really still does the whole black people are monkeys thing? Those that think anyone descended from monkeys and not some naked folk made of mud and a rib in a garden or some other faith-plausible origin actually thing we all may have descended from monkeys, or relatives of them. All of us, Black Yellow, White, Brown and whatever else you want to call people who are really not those colours at all. (well except djimon Hounsou, thats one dark mofo, i kid i kid)

I do not believe this was a direct stab at Obama, the presidency is an office, he is like a spokesperson for an entire branch. The efforts of entire branch were being targeted by the cartoon. Not just Half of Obama. Were thee editors who though of the possible material that muckrakers could use to stage a backlash? More likely than not seeing as they have covered stories of such ridiculous claims before. And as the semi annoying saying goes, “there is no such thing as bad press.”

I hope you read the article if not here is a what one protester had to say about the NV Post:

“We make them and we break them with our money, and we should shut it down,” said protester Angela Brown, who carried a glossy photo of Obama.

Ms. Brown, you stopping to read the New York Post would surely be the end of Rupert Murdoch media empire.

 

 

here is the unedited cartoon

 

Chris in doo doo Brown

Don’t like him, liked a few of his songs but don’t like him. This is more from my general mistrust of people that walk around smiling all the time, than anything else he has done or tried to. I feel they are either ignorant to the mess that the world often is in, completely unable to see the mess that the world is often in or are lying straight to our faces through their toothy grins.

In his defense he has had reasons to smile with the musical and limited acting success (he got shot I was not too upset) he has enjoyed in his relatively new career. (part of this can be attributed to Usher’s little sabbatical from pwnership of all things Rythym and Blues, R&B for you acronym lurving readers) then came the news that he was dating Rihanna. Which may have taken a smile from my brother units face, seeing as he is rather enamoured with her long legged island self, for Chris grinny Brown to keep flashing that goofy smile of his. 

Then something doo doo turned that smile upside Brown.

I really like the title of this rAnt, it makes me smile.

There it was on Yahoo news. Chris Brown Sought on Domestic violence, or something along those lines I could not be bothered to look into more but i did wonder if the unnamed victim was Rihanna. I also thought of how domestic violence does not have to apply to a domicile or a binding relationship. Then a few days later it turned out that it was.

Then began the doo doo storm.

Chris began apologizing and the media began questioning. Other celebs, as the oft* tend to, began to chime in with their  opinions

Here is an excerpt from the article “Gayle king rejects Chris Browns apology”  “Gayle King said she wasn’t moved by Chris Brown apology, in which he said Sunday he is ”saddened … over what transpired”with girlfriend Rihanna .”I can’t think of anything that makes me support anything that Chris Brown is saying at this time. And my heart just aches for Rihanna .”

Many more celebrities opinions are in the article. Here you can get mine. Who tha fwarque is Gayle King? is she a gaurdian of sort? Rihanna’s mother? Can those answers be found by simple research? I do not know, highly doubt and could not be bothered. This is since the whole thing is bothering enough without me goign to search who Gayle King is. I know she is not Rihanna so why is she rejecting an apology? 

I am not for hitting women in anger, let alone biting them as is now reported Brown, but i am also not for the public crucifiction of this annoying young man before more information comes out. Why does this apology have to go out to everyone and not to Rihanna? I mean maybe it is because the relationship, unlike chris brown, was not all smies. Maybe he and\or she have said one t0o empty apologies  before. But why so quick to doo doo on the Brown?

Many may disagree with me on this but i truly believe the whole ‘ it is not right to hit women’ thing, is sexist. Many a time have i seen a woman take advantage of this and say and do things that anyone watching a guy do, would start taking bets on how fast he was going to get knocked out. Hitting women seems to be generally condemned in public, but the fact that it is still a thing to condemn, means it still happens. Now if everyone is condemning it, then who is still doing it?

Before i conclude, let me clearly state that i am not for hitting women or men except in really dire circumstances (i do not have a clear outline of said circumstances but i do have a clear mind that it is not a simple case of never). We have thought and most of us have the ability to communicate those thoughts, and we should keep it there. now on to the conclusion. I touched on my point in a recent rAnt. Equality vs the end of discrimination. If we are entirely equal, then a woman should be paid as much as any man and also be held accountable for the results of her actions similar to any man. Is this a Positivism that has been carried on from the chauvinist view of women as weaker than men? Is it generally agreed that one should not attack one weaker than you? What if they have a weapon? What if it was Christina Brown that hit her ‘partner’ RyAnna, would Gayle King feel a certain sorrow for both of them, since they are all women? If this feeling of not hitting women, came from the loving feeling we all tend to have to our mothers and not just general sexism. What then would the protocol be if a woman verbally or physically assaulted your mother? Can any of you truely say that the statement of “Men should never hit women”, a statement based on the sex of the person, and not their actions, is not sexist? 

And with that Boo on Doo Doo Brown!

 

*i am re-reading lord of the rings and I felt ‘oft’ would be something Tolkien would have written, here is previous entry on more celebrities speaking their mind: Sharon Stone and Celebreogians

There is no bonus today, but I plan on taking a little time to think about Positivisms, and begin to rAnt about a little more than the celebrity driven pop drivel i have been doing of late. I will still throw one or two of those in there, but Positivisms should be addressed.  I think we should all take some time to think, don’t you think?

Shaquille O’Neal is one huuuge…just watch the clip

I am going to start with saying that Shaq is HE-Fraqin-Larry-us. This video made me happy, and i feel i can be upset later and just thing of him in this video and smile a lil bit. If this was on Facebook I would definately Like it (for those who do not know yet now facebook has the option of liking things on news feeds, I was a fan of disliking things but now i can like them, i like that) This clip almost made me sad that i missed the NBA All-Star game, ok that is a lie, but it is a great clip, Kobe may have jumped over my Mom but Shaq just popped and locked his way into my happy place for at least a few days.

I would like to point out something else in this video, something I noticed a while back, back when I used to watch the NBA. Way before Iverson was rocking the now shorn Cornrows, back in his Mini Fro Days (as was well put in the previous link), I remember thinking how small he looked on the court. He is not that small. He is 6 feet tall (1.8288 meters to my metric readers), the other players were  just giganto. Look how huge shaq looks alongside the Jabbawokeez!!!( the fact he is wearing white and them grey actually increases the effect but this is not an art class so moving on, also breakedancers tend to not be too tall…and last but not least Italy is a lil back on the TV so America’s best dance crew is still on, and i wish Kaba Modern won, although i am biased by my lurve of all things asian) Mr. O,Neal is 7′1″ (2.1336m) tall, a foot and an inch taller than Iverson and at 325 pounds is almost twice the weight of Iverson who is 180. Times like this amazing clip, and when im trying to design a character of shaq like proportions for my animation, remind me of how often we do not look at things in the right frame of reference.

The average height for men is 5 feet 9.2 inches (1.76 m) and weight is 189 pounds (85.7 kg), Allen Iverson may be below the weight of an avarage male but I am pretty confident he is also far above the average fitness level of most males. Average height for women is 5 feet 3.9 inches (1.62 m) and weight is 162.9 pounds (73.9 kg). These are average measurements, they do not take into account body types or fitness levels or any of those things. These being absolute averages of sorts means there is technically give on both sides above and below average before you get to being considered short or tall, heavy or light. 

I am not sure where this is going but i really just wanted to put that video up, then thought of the view from my balcony. It overlooks the construction site for the new international train terminal in Turin, Italy. On a clear day i can see the alps encircling pretty much my entire horizon, a testament to how rather flat the city of Turin is that, on a 4th floor balcony i can see that far with no obstructions(that or i am on a hill). Anyway the construction site is rather large, as i first noticed by walking along it. Then looking at the machines working inside and having been close to some of them, it at times amazes me how they look like little toys in a kids playground. I sit there for ages just watching the lil things go back and forth in a little dance of machinery. Then the train comes by zooming along with the its lil teeny passengers, looking like one of those little model towns form Superman Returns. Then I look past it all and see the Alps. I know they are far away, i know that they are rather high, but you can’t really tell ass there is no frame of reference. Then I notice there is a shadow on one of the slopes. It is cast by a rather huge cloud and covers sch a tiny part of the Mountain range. I use one of the new apartment buildings in the foreground to see how slow the cloud is moving, to kind of gauge how far it could be. The thing is creeping by at a millimeter ber minute or so. So slow that i can almost convince my mind that it is moving both right and left.  I look to the right and see that there is a peak that is in the clouds, the white Cumulus clouds not the low lying Nimbostratus. Thinking of how high the peak must be i look back to the now tiny cranes in the construction are and thing about how annoying it is when girls that are anywhere under 175 pounds say they are fat. Being above 175 does not make you fat but i can almost understand you having misgivings and since when was the target weight for girls 125 and below?!

Average Height and weight charts for men and women( actually differentiates by race) : click here 

Bonus is short men dunking, How do i know they are short? they have names like Mugsy and Spud

Suri still cutie : Miley still Cabbagey

Brooklyn Bekham is right, though he would not have been as shocked if he was regular rEader of Rant A. Tonne and had already seen Suri’s ma Boo, Suri is something to behold. She is so cute that it makes you want to have kids and at the same time fear that upon having them they will be nowhere as cute in comparison to her and thus fail in Suriness, leading to you probably resenting them for their non-Suriness, and your weak gene combination. Much like these two parents probably do of their child.

close to the tree, the apple drops - Yoda

Suri is ridiculously cute. I do not know what got me to look at more pictures of her, I was talking to Kali and ended up looking at Suri…i may have been on a blog and saw a more recent pic of her and decided to do some digging for your viewing pleasure. Here are the results.

When I found the picture in the middle, on this great flikr photostream of cupcakes (Cupcakes Take the Cake’s), I read a comment someone had put about how they would never let their daughter eat a cupcake like that in a dress like that.  My response to that is as follows. Besides the fact that her parents can afford to buy 50 of those dresses, or pay 50 people to clean the one dress, or 50 to make another one, or 50 stores that sell the dresses, and 50 farms that produce the material for the dresses…Suri is so dyamn cute that cupcake on the dress is not the same as cupcake on the dress of other children. Because those dresses do not have Suri in them. Now for instance if your child looked like this

cupcake on a dress would be a bad thing. Miley, Miley, Miley. You are obviously doing something right, besides certain…hurdles Cabbage Patch Montana doll, but make up like that, the pouting kissy face pics, the eternal peace sign flashing and standing by people way hotter than you, are not helping what your mama(in her case mostly what her papa) gave you.

She does not look too bad in this pic but for the bonus and to see the rest of the picture where it goes all wrong for her

10 things learned watching Paris Hilton : My New BFF Casting Special

So I was drinking the other day, wanna make something about it? and as i have said there has been a lot of ItalianTv watching to help with getting to know the language. So when I saw there was a show in English on MTV i decided to watch it. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it, here is what was learned.

1. It pays to not have to pay.
2. this rAnt is one reason Paris has a show.
3. Gangsters say “Snitches get Stitches.”
4. To many girls and, apparently all socialite and celebrity ones, Homosexual men are synonymous to girls. by this reasoning Asslee Simpson(no misspelling there)  could be considered a lesbian and Lindsay Lohan still Heterosexual.
5. If your dream of when you you grow up is to be like Paris, and your already her age, put your life in the fail column.
   
6. If you think you are not fake, you are.
7. All Asians do not look alike; they can just easily pass for either male or female.
8. If you are any race but Caucasian, feel free to pull out the racism card whenever. It is guaranteed to work.
9. …Perez Hilton, odio la tua faccia.
10. Girls who giggle after every other thing they say still make me have to stop thinking about punting them in their
    
11. I learned more than 10 things but decided to keep the name anyway, wanna make something about it?
12. I am continuing my attempts to reduce usage of the word ‘like.’
13. Stupid people can’t handle stupid people.
14. Unisex dressing Asians, still do not reduce my lurve of Asia.
15. Paris Hilton has been in jail, and she learned that using a pay phone is gross.
16. Not only does eating seafood make some people’s throats swell up but cooking seafood makes some people cry hysterically.
17. Christians love Paris.
18. speaking of Christians, the one thing stranger than the fact of Paris Hilton looking for a ‘New Best Friend FOREVER” are the commercials i keep seeing for a new Bible. more on this soon
    
19. I may never play a Madden video game ever again since Good Charlotte had a song on it. This is a lie ,but Good Charlotte ti odio.
20. Paris having multiple businesses in Japan made me think of not going there for a drunken 30 seconds.
    
21. Life moves pretty fast and millions of dollars do not stop you from getting old.
    
22. Paris’ true colours will make you cry
    

Still here? here is a funny video

Bonus  to capture the feeling i had watching the show