Turmoil caused by Ahmadinejad at Israel Holocaust Remembrance Day

Iran has been well known for it's dislike of Israel for the past 70 years now...

So, it is not a shocker, when given the opportunity to open the floor to a speaker, like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, that he would state his displeasure for Israel if given the spotlight...

At a U.N. event in Geneva, Switzerland...on the eve of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day....Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of using the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians... prompting 40 European diplomats to walk out...

The dozens of diplomats that walked out on Iran's president's speech, walked out because of his accusation that Israel of having a "racist government."

Ahmadinejad delivered his speech stating, "The United States and Europe had helped establish Israel after World War II at the expense of Palestinians."





Which overall is true, to a point...


After WWII Europe, U.S. & the U.N. did assist Israel into country hood after the British Mandate expire in 1948...which paved way for Palestine to lose land for the creation of Israel...to this day
there is still bad blood between the Arab world vs. Israel...

However, Ahmadinejad comments were uncalled for and are justified to debate...His comments on the eve of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, might have set back Iran to ever receive a spotlight to speak in front of the U.N. for a long time....

Overall, Ahmandinejad is up for re-election in Iran this year....In the state Iran is in, with a stale economy and with an increase in unemployment...There is speculation Ahmaninejad could not be re-elected...

"The taste of Texas with a little spicy Mexican"

Burger King is at it again...with recent ads having "The King" singing "I like Square Butts & I can not lie." while promoting this months Sponge Bob Square pants promotion had parents screaming for BK to take the ad of the market!

This comes months after the January ad, promoting a FREE Whopper to anyone who could show proof of deleting "10 friends from Facebook"....which was pulled because Facebook would of sued!

However a new ad called, "The taste of Texas with a little spicy Mexican," is sparking uproar south of the border...

As of right now, the Mexican Ambassador of Spain has been recently quoted as saying, "it is an improper use of stereotyped image of a Mexican," after seeing the advertisement in Europe...

Here is the ad of a Cowboy & a little Mexican wrestler, which HAS NOT BEEN RAN YET IN THE U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwpNQWrD8PY&feature=player_embedded


MORE CONTROVERSIAL ADVERTISEMENTS:

Burger King has done this before, with ads about "Whopper virgins" who have never tasted the hamburger before, and its marketing has been a bit on the wild side. Around Christmas it introduced its"Flame Body Spray" to give a chance for men to smell like flame-broiled meat to attract the "ladies."

Top Ten Dumbest Laws in America Today

I came across the Top Ten Dumbest Laws in America while doing reasearch for my paper, Vigilantism is Justifiable if the Structure of Governement falls apart...

Here is the list....



10- It is illegal for children to go trick-or-treating in Virginia

9- It is illegal to drive a camel on the highway in Nevada

8- It is unlawful to ride a horse under the influence in Colorado

7- In Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and or jailing.

6- In California, ANY Animals..including humans...are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school or place of worship.

5- In Wisconsin, Margarine may not be substituted for butter in restaurants unless it is requested by the customer.

4- In Illinois, You may be arrested for vagrancy if you do not have at least one dollar bill on your person.

3- While in Nebraska and if your child burps during church, you as parent may be arrested.

2- It is unlawful to keep Donkeys in bathtubs in Georgia.

1- Texas just recently passed an anti-crime law that requires ALL criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.

BREAKING BARRIERS: Fox to get a Late Night Female Talk Show Host

Fox has declared to forgo the stereotype of the Prime time talk show host being male and declare "uniqueness" to it's network to have a Prime time FEMALE Talk show Host...

The very talented Wanda Sykes...

Compared to the likes of Conan...Leno...Letterman... she is unique in three major categories of how Late Night Talk Show Host should be...

She is....

1. African American
2. Female
3. Lesbian
   

Here's a little info on Wanda...

Raised in the Washington, D.C. area...Her father served as a US Army colonel employed at the Pentagon...and her mother...as a banker...

A graduate from Hampton University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing...

After college, her first job was as a procurement officer with National Security Agency (NSA)...where she worked for 5 grueling years...

Not completely satisfied with her role with the NSA, Sykes began her stand-up career at a Coors Light Super Talent Showcase...

She continued to hone her talents at local venues while at the NSA until 1992 when she moved to New York City....her first awesome break came when opening for Chris Rock at Caroline's Comedy Club....

In 1997, she joined the writing team on The Chris Rock Show and also made many appearances on the show....

After that she took off into random TV shows...movies and her very own HBO Comedy Specials...

NOW...Sykes divorced husband David Hall in 1998....She remarried again in October 2008 in California to her female partner, whom she had met in 2006.... Sykes then came out publicly later in November 2008, that she was lesbian during a same-sex marriage rally regarding Proposition 8 in Las Vegas...

During her address she declared her excitement over the presidential election of Barack Obama, and her feeling "crushed" after the passage of Proposition 8, forbidding marriages of same-sex couples...

OVERALL I'M IN LOVE WITH WANDA...I've had a secret crush on her since I was 16 & I'm stoked for her to have this opportunity!!!

As of right now her show is still in the begining stages....which rumors point to a Late Night show dedicated to a panel of recurring guests sparring over issues from politics to pop culture...

The Wonderful World of Insurance... for Legs???

Just recently I came across an article on Body Part Insurance...Finding it quite odd, I quickly started realizing why Celebs insure certain parts of their body...



Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen insured his voice for $6 million

Model Claudia Shiffer's face alone is insured for $5 million

Stones guitarist..Kieth Richards' fingers are insured for $1.6 million

Soccer Star David Beckham legs & feet are insured for $70 million

Famous Actress Angelina Jolie's total body is insured for a cool $1 Billion



& of course



J-Lo's booty is insured for $27 mill



All the celebs above are found in film, singing, advertisements and sports....


It’s perfectly understandable for a celebrity to have themselves or parts of their bodies insured, because, after all, the assets they were born with are their bread and butter....They miss out on anything that makes them famous...no escrow



Take Tom Jones...known as an "ageless heartthrob"....Mr. Jones has insured one of his most valuable-body assets......his chest hair???



No Joke...Tom's Chest Hair is insured at $7 million





http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/03/09/no-headline-115875-21184373/

Make Me Over

With the market crashing and with business looking to rebound, several companies are switching from whats "Old" to what's "Sexy."





Dora the Explorer

Dora is set to recieve a new look come this fall.
Going from the beatles haircut, to a more tweeny sexy look. Backed by trying to hold onto preschool fans as they age, Nickelodeon and Mattel are trying to go the distance to make Dora, more appealing.










The Game Called: CLUE

With the game being 60 years old, Hasbro has elected to give the game a fancy new makeover. In this new "fancy" mansion, there is a new spa room, theater and new weapons to choose from. Along with the updation, Professor Plum is now an internet billionare and Colonel Mustard is a famous football star...The only difference now is the game has changed...Instead of being a basic house party, its a party of the rich an famous....






McDonald's New Ad Campaign



With an overhaul of modernizing their restaurants, (if you want to call them that) McDonald's has discovered a new way to influence their loyal consumers.

The new burger boxes and fry sleeves feature pictures of fresh ingredients like potatoes, lettuce and tomatoes to try to position the food as healthy.




These are just a few companies that are updating and reaching out to improve their wallets. Other companies such as, Jack in the Box, Tinker Bell, Heinz, Old Navy and M & M's are looking to broaden their horizons to not only entice consumers, but make themselves over. Most makeovers are due to come out this Fall, so stay tuned!

The Drama that is Quiltmaking

In recent news, a magazine has caught flack for its use of "obscene getures" & its racey use of nudity...



This magazine is not Playboy, Hustler or Maxim, its none other than Quilter's Home.



Quilter's Home can be purchased anywhere in Utah. As of right now, Jo-Ann fabric is the only store not to carry this specific issue involving these "Shocking Quilts."



This quilt to the right is one of Mary Beth Bellah's signature quilts on display. Its a Viagra-inspired quilt, called "Helping Hands." This specific quilt has created quite an uproar, that Bellah has had to defend.



Some people have expressed their issue, saying "What year is this anyway?" While some people have expressed that they will only buy their crafts from Jo-Ann, because they look out to keep their business "morally-righteous."



Whatever the case, styrofoam chickens & wreaths will still be bought and scrapbooking will still push forward. My overall belief is that nobody in Utah knows about this matter. Im still awaiting the shock, which will be a Relief Society lady reaching into her mailbox, egerly awaiting to scroll through her Quilter's Home, to only find images of:

1. A gun-wielding Jesus


2. A baby taking a peek out of his mama's lady parts


3. A gigantic, quilted phallus.


4. The Viagara-Inspired Quilt

Coming Across a Feminist

While typing my paper this week, I came across an interesting book, written by Alice Walker.

A self-acclaimed feminist and womanist, Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on the fictional writing, The Color Purple.

The book I picked up at Borders was, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)

It is a series of essasys similar to Douglas' book, Where the Girls Are. However, the only difference is that Walker's book goes into detail about women's sufferage, feminisim and the civil rights movement on the African American female side.

It was good to see the other side of spectrum. While Susan Douglas' explained her life as white female growing up during feminist movement of the past 50 years, Walker explained the African American side of growing up female the past 50 years.

Walker is an avid poet, who installs some poetry into the, In Search of Our Monthers' Gardens: Womanist Prose.

If interested I added a clip of one of Walker's poems....called "Not with a bang. But with a whimper," from her speech at the Evening of Conscience in San Fransisco, October 2, 2006...

Click on the link bellow and enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGe-UsFcKNI

Sick at home, talking about last class...

With the recent Chimp mauling in Connecticut, in which the owner of the chimpanzee and her friend were brutally attacked. The chimp was shot twice by police officers, who showed up at the scene.





A cartoonist from the New York Post, decided to run with the age-old idea of comparing a chimp to an African American.


The cartoon shows two police officers standing over the chimp's body: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," one officer says.

Referring to President Obama, this cartoon has struck anger and hatred from all races of the Upper East Coast calling for the jobs of several men at the New York Post...

My question is:

Why after all these years, is a cartoon portraying a chimp to a black person still happening?

and

Should the cartoonist & editors of the New York Post get fired?

My awnser is the whole chimp thing-comparing it to a black person, should stop! & should have stoped along time ago!

and

Yes, the staff that okay'd it to be printed should be fired...including the cartoonist...

After this cartoon was published, several well-known businesses in the New York area, pulled their advertisements from the paper, expressing protest.

Advertising for a TV Show????

This week we talked about advertisements and how they influence us to buy stuff!

Whats tough about this is I have come across something that kinda irritates me...

Tonight I read an article about the famous lady, "OctoMom"

Nadya Suleman, famous for pumping out 8 little individuals this past week has been heavily under fire for her remarks she made on a national TV broadcast and her new website...

Whats surprising is her appetite for the spotlight...Having no money & no job, she has created a website to make money (donations) to help support her and her now 14 children...

There's been talk, her aim is to be on TV...What's sad and wrong is she's using all this publicity to form a pilot, in which she hopes to get her and her own children a TV show...

Whats even more shocking, she is unemployed and has used the government to help support her allready large family... With just days after her pregnancy, there is global wonderment on how she will pay for the medical bills?

Through Our Donations!

There has been amazment circulating about her lips...Considering famous large family mother/actress, Angelina Jolie as her idol...After the sixth child, from her previous births...she decided to get cosmetic surgery and put collagen fat put into her lips...

Sad!

Through artificially insemination, Nadya has been on record for saying, "I consider having more babies."

However, I consider she should get a job first!

The Bra...& Watcing it Burn!

Our discussion this week about Douglas' book struck me as somewhat interesting...

In the past few days, I have recently seen several instances of burning of the bra's...

The other day I was waiting in line at Harmon's buying some needful things *laundry detergent, Diet Pepsi & toothpaste*

A lady had 3 kids on her cart...In all honesty, it looked exactly like a truck full of militants/Islamic militia men from Palestine...One was hanging out the side....the other was sitting in the child seat facing the mother...and the other was jumping up and down on the random stuff in the cart, itself...

She had her hands full...With a deep breath and her eye's bulging out of her head...She stared at the groceries slowly moving on the conveyer belt, in which she was about to purchase...

The register lady had to chuckle...She asked one simple question, "How do you keep up?"

The lady replied, "It's a marathon when your a single mother!"

She then chuckled out loud and said, "These three I can handle, but my ex-husband heck-no!"

The register lady jokingly said, "I know your feeling!"

& they both talked excessively about their ex-husbands by agreeing, they are better off without them...

Another instance was on Monday....I was hanging out with my daughter and I called her my baby...

She responded, "No I am not a baby, I am a woman"

I wonder....because throughout my life, I could understand woman and why they rebell to either be free from men or their past...but what I didn't know is how it all came to start...

In Douglas' book I have come to understand the beginnings of the woman's movement...While some people I know in class hate this book....I find it rather enjoying...to understand the hardships and struggles of women the past 50 years....

The Adventures of Chris & Savannah Sky

I will admit, as a dad Iam a dofuss...

Many people can tell you why I am, but overall I'll admit it to you first...

I watch cartoons with my daughter...I let my daughter paint my nails...ha which I held back today in class! We color mustaches on every character in her Cinderella coloring books...eat chicken nuggets and party at the zoo!

I am a dofuss...and that's why my daughter loves me!

I come from a different background then most people in Utah...My story is unique and quite an extraordinary tale...

It all goes back to a warm spring day, where a catholic-college-boy from New York, decides to go to Florida for Spring Break 2003...


Two planes depart...One from JFK, in NYC and the other from SLC, Utah...


On the SLC flight, there was a young, tall, blonde, college swimmer from BYU...

They meet... sparks fly...yadda yadda yadda...a special little girl was created :)



I moved from New York, to Utah...just to watch her grow...


& here I am today...writing this blog...



Today she is 4 and in her words, mostly influenced by me...she will tell you... "I Love to party!" I know what your thinking, so how does this involve you being a dofuss-of-a-dad and why does your 4 year old daughter "Love to party?" It is mostly because, I teach her the same things my mom taught me when I grew up!

Now I'm not saying, my mom was a dofuss...or that she's a party animal...

Heck No...

I'm actually saying the reason why...is because I like my daughter to enjoy life through the world of seeing it...understanding the humor in everything and most of all enjoying the adventures, that everyday brings...

There are several definitions of partying...or celebrating...some people commemorate others by praising...some get drunk and pass out...while others look back at their lives and think of how great it truly is by honoring it!

I honor my daughter by taking her out and showing her what the world is...we joke...we cry...we both eat cotton candy and drink soda :)

Overall, what I'm trying to get at is...I am a Dofuss of a Father and I love it! I love make my daughter laugh...and along the way teach her to be RESPONSIBLE, but most of all be CAREFREE!

Understanding Women

With the Sundance Film Festival almost over and 123 hours worked in 10 days...I can finally come back to the awesomeness that is Mass Comm 2010 Blogging *cheers*

While on breaks, I had the blessing of reading Douglas' book, "Where the Girls Are."

Being single and reading a book titled, "Where the Girls Are," in a bar full of Utah Valley drunkards/Film Festival goers from all over the world...I received alot of spectacular comments...Some funny....Some uncanny...but most downright annoying!

Tired of the jokes, I decided to take the initiative...The bar in my explanation is "Adult Day Care" and in the land of Day Care stories are always welcome! So I decided to teach my fellow patrons the world through Susan Douglas' eyes...

I explained the Introduction, Fractured Fairy Tales, including the reference to Disney... With strong reviews (and one boneheaded one from a guy from Payson, UT) many men and women commented on their views...

My favorite line was, "Anytime when you can learn about the opposite sex, you've already gone a step above yourself!"

But the most influential person to comment was a lady from New York...

Cindy was from the mean streets of Manhattan...She came to Sundance for a getaway from her daily grind on Wall Street, in which she is a stockbroker....

A single middle-aged women she has no trouble not having any kids...

no trouble not being married...

and really has no trouble depending on any man in general...

She was very interested in the book and borrowed it from me for a few minutes before she went to her 6 o'clock movie showing...

She read the same chapters I read and proceeded to give her two cents...

She pointed out the time when the Cold War was a race, not only for nuclear weapons and space exploration, but a race for women to be as equal as men!

At the time of the Cold War, Cindy was a little girl. Growing up in Upstate New York, her mother baked and made homemade meals from scratch. Her father worked in a factory making pipe fittings for ships... Growing up she commented on how her father was distraught about how women should not be involved in "Man's work." Remembering vividly, she commented on the times of racial segregation and how the times were changing.

Looking back she connected with Douglas', Intro and Fractured Fairy Tales and insisted that, "Woman are Powerful enough to hang with the boys!"

While holding an expensive glass of wine in one hand and my book in the other, she turned and smiled, "But every women deserves a Prince Charming."

I asked her, "Who is a great example of a pioneering lady who battled men for equality before 1920?"

She said, "Famous Sharpshooter, Annie Oakley"..."every man respected her, no man wanted to mess with her!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley

Stereotypes Amongst Us...in Life...in Media...

Stereotypes have always been amongst us. In fact, the first ever cases of human prejudice date back to the cave paintings between Homosapieans and Homoneanderthals (Neanderthals) over 30,000 years ago....

Aimed towards "separating" an individual...Stereotypes play a major role on how we view one other with a negative or positive label.

A great negative example happened at the famous corner of Lavell Edwards Stadium and University Ave....known as either "Gamers Corner" or "Apples to Apples corner." (where you can purchase various family board games and discount prices.)....A volunteer for the Obama campaign decided to put up his donation stand the day of the BYU vs. New Mexico game at that same exact spot...

I remember like it was yesterday....It was the end of last September and I drove a fellow co-worker to Sundance...The traffic was brutal, bumper to bumper...While waiting for the light I noticed the Obama stand with only one person at it...We both looked at each other and decided to stop...

Me and my collegue, Tavia walked up to the stand...We noticed a gentleman and a lady in the shade folding shirts...The gentleman was of Indian descent (from India, not Native American)...While talking to him about his stand a car of six-screaming-male BYU fans, faces painted blue...pulled up screaming, "Don't vote for N******...Vote for the White Guy!"

Little did they know that the lady in the shade, folding the t-shirts was African American and the wife of the Indian gentleman.

A moment of silence occured on that corner...I quickly felt remorse for the unkind stereotype, that my only response was to break the silence by extending my apologies.

The Indian gentleman smirked and said you don't have to say your sorry, we've been hearing it all day.

Before that car, I was set to donate $15 to the Obama campaign....

After the car, I donated $100 dollars total...

I donated based on my beliefs and principles, in hopes that...if just one dollar of that 100 could change the world just a bit...maybe an event like this wont happen in the future!

It's kind of "Old Hat" or "Old News," but Obama brokedown many barriers to become the very first African-American President of the United States. With 5 days left until is Inauguration, Barrack Obama has been the talk on every tv show, news show across the world, based mostly on his color of his skin.

To this day people in the media still play the race card. Just a few weeks ago on Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Miller still has trouble beliving that our next President is going to be African American, that he used a lyric from George Clinton's Paraliment Phunkadelic hit song, Chocolate City, "That the White House is only temporary C.C." Referring to the song, Miller finished the lyric by saying, "As soon as Obama gets into office it will be known as the Black House."