Why President Obama is a Dissapointment

"My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration." 

Hollow words from an administration that enjoys press censorship and a president much different in theory than in practice. In 2008, the world wanted to believe him when he admonished President Bush and then Senator Clinton for authorizing the Iraq war. He once stated that the Bush administration " put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide." Yet Americans find themselves nearly six years later, listening to Obama as he tells them they "can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy" and that "[t]here are trade offs involved," the same trade offs he once promised them refuge from. Deja vu...

When he was elected in 2008, the electorate was seeking a reprieve from unnecessary war, interventionism and the "Bush Doctrine", blind patriotism, "freedom fries", almost weekly be headings of contractors, terrible insurgent violence in Iraq, rising gas prices and a horrific recession. Obama turned out to be the same type of foreign policy hawk as Bush/ Cheney and to believe any different is willful ignorance. He did escalate the war in Afghanistan, authorized drone attacks in Pakistan, and Guantanamo remains open, even after he swore it would be closed a year after he took office. 

Obama proves to be just another president, but that wasn't supposed to be the case when your candidacy is predicated on "change". How is continuing what your predecessor started change to believe in? He has stated numerous times that he is fighting for the middle class, but median incomes are going down. Where are the infrastructure jobs, you know the "shovel ready" jobs to get America back to work? Oh that was in that turkey 2009 stimulus bill where there were not so many shovel ready jobs funded.  Here are my main issues with the Obama presidency and what I call his major failures.

Let's talk about his caver in chief leadership style. Obama's style is a mediator that likes to listen to both sides and find common ground to come up with a viable solution. It's the college professor in him, I suppose. Unfortunately, you have a bunch of idiots that love to thug their way to action and impose their will on the entire nation in order to get re-elected. Thanks to Professor Obama trying to negotiate with political terrorists, we got the sequester, the down grading of our credit rating, government shut down, 6 months of  debate of the ACA which cost democrats the Majority in the Congress and gave birth to the dumbest bastards on the planet, the TEA Party. What he needs are war time advisors much like Bush, to control messaging and not allow his enemies to control the story for a full 6 months before he addresses an issue. Obama and his apologists seem to forget the zero sum game tactics of Bush era politics that takes presidential destruction the singular goal. Especially when they tell you repeatedly that is their sole goal...

Another major issue is Obama's love and expansion of our surveillance state. 
Obama criticized Bush mercilessly over 9/11 post surveillance to spy on American citizens.  But after entering office, Obama has done nothing but ramp up all forms of surveillance, from meta data capture to wiretapping to recording phone log information of American citizens. Considering the man was a Constitutional Law Professor, somewhere he must have learned about our Bill of Rights. But like all Presidents before him, once Presidential authority has been given, it won't be given back, no matter the circumstances. 

Obama loves drones and his hypocrisy about using them. 
Remember why people voted for Obama? He didn't vote for the Iraq war, he wasn't elected then, but that's details. McCain and Clinton did. Obama showed disgust at their votes to authorize military action in Iraq and thus won the anti- war crowd. But years later, he has let the anti war people down, by expanding the drone war. Since elected, he has launched more than 390 drone attacks, 8 times more than Bush. Obama pledged transparency, drone attacks would increase and that they would only be conducted when there was a "near certainty" that civilians would not be killed. What his non stop drone attacks does is create a virtual, xbox, PlayStation mentality of killing. Plus, it's a great recruiting tool for the next generation of terrorists all the more willing to strike at the "great Satan".

Obama failed to change the political culture in Washington.
I thought that was comical when he uttered those words about change back in 2008. The throngs of people fainted and swooned, some listened to his speeches as one would listen to a song on their Ipod. He promised during his election campaign to turn the page on ugly partisanship politics and pass an agenda that works for all American people.  On another occasion, he declared that "the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and anger that’s consumed Washington….To build a coalition for change that stretches through red states and blue states….We’re choosing unity over division." We can blame a few people for this...Republicans for just being implacable from the get go, but Obama did not say, "I will change the culture, if the Republicans let me." Second, Obama's promise was impossible and a delusional wish, to think that he can get people with political agenda's beholden only to their constituents for the next election cycle to work for the good of everyone is insane. That's not politics, that's benevolence from Mother Theresa. Third, Republicans claim Obama did not reach out to them in the beginning when he was pushing for a stimulus package at the beginning of his presidency. True, he really didn't have to consult them because he had control of the house and congress, but still, it caused an atmosphere of rancor, distrust and political poison. When the Democrats lost one chamber, it made passing any legislation near impossible. 

Obama handles Scandals badly. 
The IRS review of political orgs, Justice seizure of the AP's phone records, and surveillance of the NSA are a few examples. The white house gave inconsistent and shifting explanations. Sure we can say it's not him directly, but once he knows about it, his explanations are just plain dumb. 

Obama isn't a liberal or moderate, he is a conservative. More like a neo- con to be fair to actual conservatives. There are several examples, such as rights to habeus corpus to detainees, torture, the Patriot Act, etc...I will compare what Bush did to what Obama did. 

 Bush suspended terrorism suspects’ right to habeas corpus. By branding them “unlawful enemy combatants” and by imprisoning them in Guantánamo Bay, his administration argued that they are not protected by the Constitution or by the Geneva Conventions, and can be imprisoned indefinitely without evidence or charges. The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that Guantánamo Bay detainees do have the right to habeas corpus.

Candidate Obama said...

A constitutional scholar with a law degree from Harvard, Obama argued strongly against the Bush administration’s disregard for civil rights, calling them “the essence of who we are”: “As a parent, I can also imagine the terror I would feel if one of my family members were rounded up in the middle of the night and sent to Guantánamo without even getting one chance to ask why they were being held and being able to prove their innocence. … By giving suspects a chance – even one chance – to challenge the terms of their detention in court, to have a judge confirm that the government has detained the right person for the right suspicions, we could solve this problem without harming our efforts in the war on terror one bit.”

President Obama did...

Shortly after assuming office, Obama appealed a district court ruling that granted prisoners in Afghanistan the right to challenge the legality of their detention, adopting the legal argument straight from the Bush DOJ. This was well before his political opponents exerted public pressure to this effect. There is little or no evidence against a significant portion of U.S. detainees held on suspicion of terrorism, and many are known by the administration to be innocent.  In May 2010, Obama won the case in a DC Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Standing in front of the original Constitution at the National Archives in May 2009, Obama introduced a staggering new expansion of executive power: In addition to using military tribunals, the administration would now retain the right to indefinitely hold detainees deemed dangerous, even if they were known to be innocent of any crime, without charges, and without their day in either a court or a military tribunal. This was the first time in U.S. history that the executive branch asserted the right to imprison people indefinitely on suspicion that they might commit a crime in the future.

In 2006, Bush and many high-ranking officials in his administration stated publicly that they want to close down Guantánamo. The facility had become a PR disaster for the U.S., due to torture, homicides, and its very reason for existing, which was to escape legal oversight. There was, however, never any backtracking by the Bush administration on the legality of the practices in Guantánamo.

One of Obama’s first executive orders was to shut down Guantánamo (which Bush had also promised to do), along with secret CIA prisons abroad.  Obama’s strategy from the start, however, was to move Guantánamo detention practices elsewhere while continuing to argue for their legality. He was denied funding by the Senate to transfer Guantánamo detainees — into continued indefinite detention without legal rights — to a prison complex in Illinois, dubbed “Gitmo North.” The administration was more successful with the Bagram Detention Center: In May 2010, Obama won his case at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, making Bagram – infamous for its own cases of torture and homicide – a new legal black hole for the administration.  This prompted eight major civil liberties and human rights groups to sign a joint letter opposing the entire closure. Guantánamo has still not been closed, long after Obama’s self-imposed deadline of January 2010. On March 8, 2011, Obama issued a new executive order, formally codifying the permanent role of the Guantánamo Bay facility in the administration’s policy of indefinite detention, and as the location for military tribunals. 

The U.S. PATRIOT Act, signed into law by Bush after the September 11 attacks and widely criticized as unconstitutional, gave the president unforeseen powers to monitor phone conversations and email exchanges, and to access personal files such as medical and financial records. It also gave law enforcement and immigration authorities greater powers to detain and deport immigrants at their own discretion. The PATRIOT Act also vastly expanded the use of “national security letters” by the FBI (and reportedly also the CIA and DOD). These are documents that can be issued by the agency without the approval of a judge, mandating the recipients to submit data and records pertaining to other individuals (such as clients or patients), and barring them from disclosing to anyone, including their lawyer, that they received such a letter.

In October 2009, Obama joined the GOP in pushing for the renewal of key provisions of the PATRIOT act, and of the law as a whole in 2010. After getting rid of the existing, inadequate protections of civil liberties included in the bill, and rejecting all proposed reforms aimed to protect civil liberties, the Senate Judiciary Committee, including nearly all of its Democrats, voted to pass the law at the express urging of the president. Many Democrats had vehemently condemned the law during Bush’s presidency. In July 2010, the Obama administration began to pressure Congress to rewrite the PATRIOT Act so as to give the FBI the right to access any individual’s Internet activity records without court oversight. In May 2011, a bipartisan effort by the leadership of both parties pushed through another 4-year extension of the law. The effort was spearheaded by Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, both vocal opponents of the law during Bush’s presidency. Meanwhile, some Democratic senators have voiced concerns about the administration’s interpretation of the PATRIOT Act, which they claim contradicts the letter of the law and further expands its scope, based on a legal theory which the White House insists is “a secret” from the public.

Bush hiked the nation’s military spending back to Reagan-era levels, and took the country into two catastrophic wars, one of them under false pretenses and in violation of international law. In a historically bad economic situation, incomparable to that of 2002 , Obama has surpassed Bush and and Reagan in defense spending, with the largest combined budget for the military since World War II. These hikes have been accompanied by constant, misleading statements about “cuts” in the Pentagon’s budget. Meanwhile, Obama has signaled imminent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid  Obama has hiked the spending on, and use of, Special Operations forces, secretly deployed them to 75 countries, and extended de facto “secret wars” to Somalia and Yemen.

He extended Bush tax cuts through 2012, that benefited the wealthiest 95% of the country in order to extend unemployment benefits. Hardly a fair trade..He said that the tax cuts would create jobs, he was against NAFTA before he was for it and a crackdown on whistle blowers and journalists. Let's not mention he continues to use the ridiculous "state secrets privilege" started by Bush, which basically is a request to exclude certain evidence if it can be harmful to national security. The Bush legal team introduced a radical reinterpretation of this evidentiary rule, making it serve to bar any legal action against the Government, throwing out entire cases involving torture, arbitrary detentions, and warrantless spying on Americans. Immediately after Obama took office, his administration and the DOJ under Eric Holder adopted exactly the same legal arguments that the Bush administration had made, and have used them to discard unwanted cases against the Government. Obama has successfully continued to use the state secrets privilege to block any scrutiny of torture, arbitrary detentions, warrant less spying on Americans, extraordinary renditions, or of his assassination program.

I could literally go on and on about this...but you get the point...

With our permanent war on terror that gets pushed to the side due to Kimye, Beyonce', Jay-Z, which ignorant whore got kicked in the face on __________(fill in the blank reality show),  and now Dre's Beats by Dre nonsense, the Constitutional lawyer that sits in the oval office has expanded on the worst of the Bush administration and he has no one to blame for his failures but himself.

For all that drank his kool aid, he failed you and he should apologize every day. Life is like a box of chocolates, either it's full of cherry cordials that you won't eat, or someone has already eaten the candy and all you have is the aroma of chocolate. That is  the Obama Presidency, an empty box full of the aroma of what could have been.

Open Letter to People Mad at Beyonce' and Jay-z's Cuba Trip...

Let Them Eat Cake

Get over It!  Why did anyone think that these people were the faces of responsible black America I will never quite understand. There were head scratching pictures of the Carters and the Obama's side by side with captions like, "Responsible Black Family". I was like, "What?" I was ready to set fire to the rain over the foolishness... We have one person that can barely speak or write on a fifth grade level, wears the same blond lace front she's been rocking for a decade, a backstabber, a plagiarist, and duller than a piece of cardboard held under a faucet. Then we have a person who is almost 50, tragically unattractive, has rhymed the same lame weak lines since the 90's, believes he is Al Capone or John Gotti, brags about being a mogul and to his everlasting shame, introduced and peddled Rihanna on the world. He should get up and do an apology tour for that alone. Somehow Beyonce' and Jigga Man have gotten their hooks into the Obama's to make themselves seem, I don't know, smarter, respectable and less like what they really are. Selfish money grubbing assholes. Can't we as a race do better than this?

Apparently, the trip was authorized by the Treasury Department as an educational and cultural exchange. Beyonce' and educational...that's like Kim Kardashian and chastity, those two words just don't go together. I bet Joe Camel got a butt load of Cuban Cigars, you know, he is a "thug", at least he was 20 years ago, and he reminds us in every album named Blueprint, which I believe is on the 4th version.

Last I checked Beyowulf and Joe Camel were Americans, no matter how annoying or mezmerizingly stupid they are, are free to travel to wherever they choose without being called out for hypocrisy even if they travel to a decrepit non scary Communist country. The only Communist country that's remotely imposing is China and that's because of their size and due to them owning our national debt. The embargo is stupid, period point blank. It's been over 50 years...seriously. How can we do business with China or Vietnam but keep sanctions on Cuba? That's hypocrisy, American style. Our Cuban policy stopped making sense decades ago, and if we want to start pointing fingers about human rights violations, we need to start right here. We have created a private prison industrial complex that is rife with human right abuses. Also, let's not forget water boarding, rendition, being spied on at any time by the government, all thanks to the Patriot Act.

The Bay of Pigs was during Kennedy's time, and those were Russian, Soviet weapons that were a threat to the US, not Cuban. Presently, Castro is on the verge of death, so really, what is the big deal now?

Getting Edumacation

Let's not get it twisted with Beyonce' and Jay-Z, they are not thoughtful people, they aren't smart and they didn't go to Cuba to examine the plight of the Cuban populace. They went there because they thought it was an exotic, chic place to relax. They don't care that the Cuban tourism department is run by the Cuban military and when they spends money, they are funding the oppressors of the Cuban people. Jay doesn’t know that artists in Cuba, with whom he was supposedly having a cultural exchange, serve under the close supervision of the government, and don’t enjoy the freedom to defiantly name check the President, call out a few senators, threaten to buy a kilo of cocaine just to spite the government, or suggest that they will follow up their purchase with a shooting spree, as rapped about in "Open Letter."



Jay-Z lives a willful blind ignorance and flaunts it in his music. He started his career by making music which made people in his situation feel they could aim for the things he rapped about. Then when he obtained those things he figured it would be clever to rap about how the common man cannot obtain what he has. He has since found himself unable to make music about anything except for more ways to say he has things you cannot get. Jay-z engages in a willful manipulation of his image among poor people.

Eff You, Pay Me!

These two ring worms never take responsibility for any causes unless it's getting your money by being bad artists while pretending to be good one's. 

Queen B Tells the World to Bow Down

And cues us in on her true colors, which is the lion king mane she's been rocking since 95.

Look at All My Trophies!

Beyonce' once again gives us a mediocre song full of bragging and basically tells her followers that we should adore, worship, admire and envy her life. All the while she repeats the same line over and over, which seems to be a trend of the day... Here is the "song" in it's entirety...

How Dare I Pretend to be Elizabeth I, She Could Speak English

I'm at that H town, coming, coming down, im coming down

Get it on the ground
H town, im coming down, coming down
Get it on the ground

I know when you were little girls
You grabbed a bee-ing in my world
Dont forget it, dont forget it
Respect that, bow down, b-tches

I took some time to live my life (not long enough, apparently)
But don’t think I’m just his little wife (what when you finally admitted you two got married, hey no one is jealous you got the camel, all we want is the bank roll)
Dont get it twisted, get it twisted
This my sh-t (what?! tell us, what is your shit? You have described nothing at all)

Bow down, b-tches
Bow down, b-tches
Bow down, b-tches
Bow down, b-tches

H-town b-tches, H-H-town b-tches

I’m so crowned, bow, bow down b-tches (Crowned must be code for stoned, b/c she had to he high when she wrote/ stole this track)

Im at that H town, coming, coming down, im coming down
Get it on the ground

This is Rihanna, Taylor Swift simplistic in terms of lyrical content. I have made fun of the song that Beyonce' had, "irreplaceable", where she laughably rhymes minute with minute, but this is beyond stupid. Wait...wasn't she on Michelle Obama's nuts, sending fifth grade level love letters about how she was a great example for America and her daughter. Isn't crap like this a contradiction? Beyonce' has never been a true advocate of female empowerment, let's get that straight. One has to be smart, which clearly Beyonce is not, make a real contribution to human history and actually understand that female empowerment is not booty popping in hot pants. It seems that Beyonce' who refers to herself as a feminist doesn't seem to know the definition of the word. After the idiotic "Who Run the World", which is was discovered after some sleuthing, that girls do not run the world, that fact alone should've clued everyone in on not to listen to this girl about anything other than singing. 

While many of her fans are celebrating the song as playful and innovative (they have to be the dumbest fans on the face of the earth to think this is anything but reductive), the lyrics are in direct contrast to past statements she has made about wanting to inspire other women to enter and be successful in the music industry. She once said, "When I was younger I wish I had more females who played instruments to look up to.... I just wanted to do something which would inspire other young females to get involved in music so I put together an all-woman band.” 

As a mother, (and I need to see the receipts on that one), and sister, how does she not see a problem in referring to women as “b--ches” and “tricks”? Does she get a pass for being domineering and crass whenever her alter-ego Sasha Fierce decides to resurface?

Wearing my Royal Corset

 Beyonce' has referred to herself as a feminist at times. She said: “I think I am a feminist in a way. It’s not something I consciously decided I was going to be; perhaps it’s because I grew up in a singing group with other women, and that was so helpful to me. It kept me out of so much trouble and out of bad relationships." She went on to promote solidarity with other women: "I love being a woman and I love being a friend to other women. I think we learn a lot from our female friends – female friendship is very, very important. It’s good to support each other and I do try to put that message in my music.”

There are times when Beyonce' boldly lives up to these words. She does it whenever she makes arguments for women having financial autonomy, appreciating their unique body type, and relishing in the joys of motherhood. Basically when it suits her.

However, there are also times when the pride that Beyonce takes in being “Queen B” and “Mrs. Carter” overshadows her efforts to affirm other women. The “Survivor” and “Independent Women” singer should remember that you’re either committed to female empowerment or you’re bowing down to patriarchy. The thing that the person that she is pretending to emulate, Elizabeth I, was against in the 40 years of her reign. Because feminism and the fight for women’s rights are not part-time jobs that you can clock in and out of. They're a way of life. It's time to stop with the hypocrisy and just be the cocky asshole you really are, not the controlled pristine child of destiny.  In addition to being crazy, uneducated and having multiple personalities who needs to get an updated look. 

And I'm Still Boring...

For those who look to celebrities as role models or pattern yourselves for anything other than drag characters, nothing they do should be believed and everything should be taken only at face value. All the protestations from Oprah that they are the kindest, down to earth person, trust and believe, Sophia is lying. When you see them on tv begging for money to help the little earthquake victims, tsunami victims, or some other victim of something, just keep in mind, it's all for their Q rating. How do I know? There are still people suffering in Cuba, Japan, the Eastern Sea board and in New Orleans...we get a concert, a message about sending a text for $10, and then we move on. 

Since 4 basically flopped, this is nothing but a marketing ploy to get people to talk about her, since we don't have the election to talk about, her elementary school level book reports, and she can't instagram naked photos of herself. 

If this is Beyonce keeping it real, then she keeping it real stupid. 

Beyonce's HBO's Special Revealed Absolutely Nothing

All hail Queen Bey, she is perfect right? 


All but her grammar skills, her songwriting ability and who knows what her real hair looks like...No tea, no shade...Sure she she has 17 Grammy's, has conned the world into believing that her performances are fresh and new, she sings live, writes all her songs, creates all the concepts of her shows, justifies shilling for hair dye while wearing a wig, promoting a "fashion line" that is fit for ladies of the night, a creole lover of popeye's chicken, a hijacker of Destiny's Child, and a commander of the 5th grade vernacular. She commands the devout and a dangerous brand of sycophancy that places her dangerously close to godlike status among her many worshipers.

Sunday, little Ms. Private decided to "let the world in" and show us her private life and see her vunerable side. This of course came after she decided to join Instagram, Facebook and other social media after about 10 years behind the curve. What exactly did we see? A sanitized view of Beyonce' in the most positive light possible that was as controlled as possible. Oprah has sang her praises and basically equated her to Mother Theresa reincarnated. This is the same person that pretended that she wasn't seeing Joe Camel for years long after the world knew they were in fact dating and bumping uglies. This is the person that turned the mic's down on Michelle and Kelly at the Superbowl, and forced them into singing one of her solo song about *snicker* Independence. What about the time she admitted to being a raging narcissist?

Anytime she wants to remind herself of all that work--or almost anything else that's ever happened in her life--all she has to do is walk down the hall. There, across from the narrow conference room in which you are interviewing her, is another long, narrow room that contains the official Beyoncé archive, a temperature-controlled digital-storage facility that contains virtually every existing photograph of her, starting with the very first frames taken of Destiny's Child, the '90s girl group she once fronted; every interview she's ever done; every video of every show she's ever performed; every diary entry she's ever recorded while looking into the unblinking eye of her laptop. ... Beyoncé's inner sanctum also contains thousands of hours of private footage, compiled by a "visual director" Beyoncé employs who has shot practically her every waking moment, up to sixteen hours a day, since 2005. ... This digital database, modeled loosely on NBC's library, is a work in progress--the labeling, date-stamping, and cross-referencing has been under way for two years, and it'll be several months before that process is complete. Yeah, that sounds perfectly normal to me...

Of course she admitted that she is nuts..."I now know that, yes, I am powerful," she says. "I'm more powerful than my mind can even digest and understand."A legend in our own mind, Beyowulf with intense delusions of granduer.

How about the countless plaigerism lawsuits? Every album she get's slammed for stealing choreopgraphy, video and show concepts, and entire songs from lesser known artists without so much as giving them a credit or a mention in the liner notes. 

She also covered her alleged pregnancy in the documentary with footage of the baby folding in on itself. Beyonce' had an explanation for that. "It was a fabric that folded - does fabric not fold? Oh my gosh, so stupid." If we were to believe the pregnancy story then we would be stupid.

It's hard to say exactly how long because particulars like where and when are barely telegraphed – there's not a single explanatory chyron in the entire film. Cynically, I wonder if this is a sign of co-director Beyoncé's egocentrism; she assumes that we've been following her closely enough to know what she's talking about without bothering to explain certain key facts. Or maybe she thinks we can read her mind. Or maybe she's just not that great of a memoirist.

The problem with Life Is But a Dream's treatment of her pregnancy isn't that it protests too much – it protests too weirdly. We never see a full, clear shot of Beyoncé's pregnant, swanlike body. Instead it's presented in pieces, owing to the limitations of her Mac webcam. When her body is shown in full, it's in grainy, black and white footage in which her face is shadowed.


Why, though? If you're going to present an image of your pregnant self to prove the naysayers wrong, why do it in such an obscure way? Why bother? The footage seems to exist to be described as "beautiful." Is it just art, or more lies?

That question could apply to the whole of Life Is But a Dream, in which the notoriously tight-lipped Beyoncé consciously unveils parts of her life and, in the process, reveals nothing. On firing her father, Matthew Knowles, as her manager, she says, "It was a stressful, sad, difficult time." Gee. Imagine. On her general feelings, she says, "If I'm scared, be scared, allow it, release it, move on." On her humanity, she says, "I know that people see celebrities, and they seem like they're so perfect - they seem like their life is so great, and they have money and fame. But I'm a human being. I cry. I'm very passionate and sensitive. My feelings get hurt. I get scared and nervous like everyone else." This last quote, by the way, came from a video message she recorded for journalists attending a listening session for her I Am...Sasha Fierce album in 2008. Prefab on top of prefab.

Much like in Madonna's Truth or Dare, there is a great sense of performance in Life Is But a Dream. Beyoncé Knowles is Beyoncé Knowles. But unlike Madonna, who got off on being bad and pushing buttons, Beyoncé's aesthetic is perfection. She lives to be admired, and the supposed grittiness in Life Is But a Dream exists so that we admire her more. Look at how critical Beyoncé is of herself when she watches herself! Look at how pretty she looks naturally! (Never mind that her several made-under looks clearly required makeup.) Listen to how well she articulates herself when presented softball questions by an interviewer that she hired for a movie she is orchestrating and directing!

Again, I wonder: Why bother? Is it all for money? Is the point to promote a brand? To keep fresh in minds for her imminent upcoming album? Maybe. But if you read Life Is But a Dreamas sincere expression, it becomes something far weirder, the product of an extraordinarily talented, extraordinary bland person who is never not stilted. What if this were an accurate depiction of Beyoncé's limited, surface-level capacity to express herself in daily life that reaches savant-like highs only through her art? That is a fascinating life worth capturing.

Like the black-and-white footage of her supposedly pregnant self, all of Life Is But a Dream provokes more questions than it answers. We leave knowing nothing and talking and talking and talking, essentially doing the heavy-lifting for the privileged star. "All I need is not me, because I can't do it by myself," says Beyoncé on the makings of Beyoncé. It takes a nation to fuel a machine this big.

After watching this documentary, it will also take hip boots to fuel a machine this big...

Beyonce Debuts New Nose at Superbowl...

But Recycles performance...

I know I will be accused of throwing mad shade because I am the only person alive that thinks that Beyonce is unorginal and does the same thing over and over, yet is called "entertainment". Sure booty popping in a corset, lights flashing with an industrial wind machine blowing her lace front is mindless fun, but really is that something we haven't seen from her a thousand times?

What may be new is her nose...surgeons have speculated that Mrs. Joe Camel has had a rhinoplasty. Specifically, her nose narrowed and tip refined.  I guess we can add the nose to the fake hair and the skin bleaching, oh, but she is "creole", which means something in the Beyonce school of non thought and non genetics. Maybe it was simply heavy duty contouring from the Drag Race reject that did her makeup, who knows. This isn't the first time that Beyonce has basically used a putty knife to spackle on her paint by numbers makeup.

Of course, an article from People, US Weekly or some other celebrity butt kissing publication will have her quoted as saying that she loves her body and she is in comfortable in her own skin. Too bad she isn't as comfortable in her production and songwriting skills, otherwise she would stay off Myspace and Youtube stealing other peoples entire shows. It could be worse, she could fake a pregnancy for attention, or display gross hypocrisy by campaigning and "penning" love letters to The Obama's and their Let's Move program, while taking a $50 million check from Pepsi. What's that? She did those things? Oh well... At least she comes up with clever and witty names for her shows like her upcoming Mrs. Carter tour. Wait...where have I heard that name before? That's her married name?! That's as creative as Nicki Minaj naming every album Pink Friday. If it ain't about hot pants, its a complex, concept isn't it? The last horse really needs to try to make it to the finish line instead of her chasing her tail.

Addendum to Worst Songs of 2012

My ipod hasn't been charged due to laziness and tiredness and I have been forced to listen to the radio, here is an addendum to my prior list of suck. These songs may give a person diarrhea...

11. Girl On Fire- Alicia Keyes featuring Nicki Minaj

There are so many things wrong with this song without the obvious involvement of Video Hoe Barbie. First off, this Alicia can sing, she can play, but she chooses to vocally audition for a role as werewolf in Twilight by howling the entire song. It's her repeating "this girl is on fire" for most of the song, which is painful to hear. Where is the substance? This song belongs on a soundtrack or a montage about shopping or a white girl who just graduated and she got her first big job in the city while she catches cabs o rides the subway. Alicia is the example of what happens in the music industry, make a good album with substance when you first come out, then get rich and stop trying. 

10. H.F.Y.R- Drake and Wayne

I have nothing positive to say about this song, not even the beat can overcome the repetitive lyrics, and the sheer nothingness that is the message of the song. Oh, well they "rapped" or should I say crapped about what they normally do, getting laid, drinking and smoking while proclaiming themselves to be the "realest niggas in the game." If they are the realest, then I would hate to see the bitches. Then again, one of them should be on a rainbow float at Pride along with Chris Brown. Look at the lyrics:

Do you love this shit? Are you high right now? Do you ever get nervous?
Are you single? I heard you fucked your girl, is it true?
You getting money? You think them niggas you with is with you?
And I say hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, fuckin' right, fuckin' right, alright
And we say hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, fuckin' right, fuckin' right, alright

The answer to your first question, no I don't love this shit because it's shit. I would get nervous dealing with a bunch of down low fake rappers who can't rap. You tell us in every song about how much money you getting and we all know that "them niggas" is more than with you. 

9. Bands Make Her Dance- Juicy J and 2 Chainz

Another stripper anthem...a good beat, but do we have to talk about strippers yet again? Granted Juicy J isn't a lyrical impresario, this is the person that got a Grammy for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp." That song was 10 times better than this, maybe because 2 Chainz mucks up anything he touches being the male Nicki Minaj. Lyrically, this should embarrass everyone involved.

[Intro - Juicy J]
Strippers
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance

[Chorus - Juicy J]
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance
All these chicks popping pussies, I'm just popping bands
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance
These chicks clappin' and they ain't using hands
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance
All these chicks popping pussies, I'm just popping bands
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance
These chicks clappin' and they ain't using hands


Basically he just rhymes bands, with dance, hands and dance again. Seriously?! Was this written down or did they make this up as they were going alone. Every time I hear this song, I die a little inside.

8. Put it Down- Brandy
Oh man...where is the singing? It's just an auto tuned piece of garbage that illustrates that B-Rocka needs to be relevant. The beat isn't that great and what she is doing to her voice, it baffles me considering the skank can sing. I'm shocked she had Chris Brown instead of her Creepy Creeperton brother on the track, so someone had sense. The song is terrible.

7. Birthday Song- 2 Chainz
I don't even know where to start. This song is basically about getting cooch as a birthday gift, that's it. That's all this know nothing rapper raps about. Every sin or vice is covered in this one song and should be used as a model at what not to do in life.


Intro: 2 Chainz]
Yeah
Birthday, it's your birthday
If I die bury me inside that Louie store

[Hook: 2 Chainz]
They ask me what I do and who I do it for
And how I come up with this shit up in the studio
All I want for my birthday is a big booty girl
All I want for my birthday is a big booty girl
When I die, bury me inside that Gucci store
When I die, bury me inside that Louie store
All I want for my birthday is a big booty girl
All I want for my birthday is a big booty girl

I wonder how you come up with this shit in the studio myself, the one honest question in the song.

6. Dance For You- Beyonce

Beyonce makes 3 types of songs: 1. Generic love songs, 2. Mindless club songs invoking a misguided female empowerment message, 3, Over sung ballads. This would fall into the generic love song category. 

Tonight I'm gonna dance for you, oh-oh
Tonight I'm gonna dance for you, oh-oh
Tonight I'm gonna put my body on your body
Boy I like it when you watch me, ah
Tonight it's going down
I'll be rocking on my babe, rocking, rocking on my babe,
I'll be swirlin' on my babe, swirlin', swirlin' on you babe
I'm gonna put my body on your body
Promise not to tell nobody
'Cause it's about to go down!

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...wake me up this song goes off.

5. Tonight- John Legend

Generic, generic, generic...I used to like John when he first released his album. Now, his voice is a bit irritating because he sounds like an old man doing his first solo in the church choir, but for the most part, he is OK. This song is painful in a commercial way. 

Baby, tonight's the night I let you know
Baby, tonight's the night we lose control
Baby, tonight you need that, tonight believe that
Tonight I'll be the best you ever had

I don't wanna brag, but I'll be
The best you ever had

I don't wanna brag, but I'll be
The best you ever had

Maybe Mr. Legend doesn't know the definition of "brag", but telling me that he will be the best that I ever had is BRAGGING. So, please Mr. Renaissance man stop pretending to be smart, worldly, and sophisticated if the entire premise of your song is about how good you are in bed but you aren't going to brag  about it, but that's something you are clearly doing. 

4.  Nobody' Perfect- J. Cole (Keyshia Cole)

J. Cole has to be the laziest generic rapper I have ever heard. talking over a beat 2.0. When I first heard him I thought he was Kanye for about a month and he has the talent to rap about absolutely nothing. This song is supposed to be about..I don't know, but it appears that he sleeping with some chick in college, among the many other whores in his rotating schedule, that's all I can tell for sure.

Oh yeah, to my college girl, take the weekend off and come home soon
I graduated way too long ago to be sneakin' all in your dorm room
But that thing tight like Fort Knox
So I call you when the tour stops
But baby with your roommates, did you make sure the door's locked?
She love it when we get together
Smoke a little weed but the shit together
Now that I'm on, I can pick and choose
Only fuck with hoes who got shit to lose
Yeah, I heard stories about different dudes
Her man on campus but it's fine by me
She say she only fucked like 4-5 niggas,
So you know you gotta multiply by 3

I have no words to convey how stupid the above verse is. He is too old to sneak into a dorm room, but he is apparently doing it anyway, smoking weed on the campus with the less than intelligent co-ed. He mentions that he only get's down with women that have "something to lose", meaning high standards or financially secure I would assume. However, no one with any real standards would listen to the misogynistic lyrics in a J. Cole song and think "sign me up." 

3.  Love On Top- Beyonce

I know people love this song, the radio plays it ad nauseum, but this isn't a good song. This song falls into 2 categories, over sung generic love song. This song sounds like it was written in the 90's, or maybe that's when the artist she probably stole the song from wrote it. Regardless this song is annoying, repetitive and just middle of the road. The song is basically filler with Beyonce yelling the 2 lines and screeching the chorus over and over. This seriously makes me mute the radio for about 10 minutes to make sure I don't bust an eardrum.

2. 2 Reasons- Trey Songz

Bottoms up Remix should be the name of the song. We have yet another song about the club, drinking and picking up whores. At least he is willing to buy the drinks for the whores. I will just post the lyrics:

I know it's somebody birthday, right now (Right Now) right now (Right Now [2x]) Yeahh
Is somebody getting drunk doe, right now [5x] (Yeahhh)
Catch me in the club like I own that bitch (Own That Bitch)
Shawty dancing like she on that dick (On That D)
Bad bitches never hold back (Never Hold Back)
Send me a picture where ya phone at (Ooohhh)

[Pre-Chorus:]
I only came here for 2 Reasons, I-IIII can't lie (Whatcha came for)

[Chorus:]
I only came for the bitches and the drinks (Uh-huh), bitches and the drinks [2x] (That Right)
For the bitches, Ca-Came for the bitches and the drinks (Uh-huh), bitches and the drinks [2x] (Alright) (Baby Whatcha Came For)
(Aahh) Baby get ya glass up (Get Ya Glass Up) I only came for the bitches and the drinks
Baby get ya ass up (Get Ya Ass Up) that's what I came for (Yeahhh)

I don't even have to say anything else about this ...

1.  Cashin Out- Cash Out

OMG...I lose brain cells every time this nonsense comes on with that music like it should be part of a video game...

36 O’s so I’m ridin’ ‘round with that nina (I’m ridin’ ‘round with that nina)
Ridin’ with a hoe named Keisha, smokin’ on Keisha (You know we smokin’ on Keisha)
My diamonds talk for me, they say "Hi can I meet you hoe?" (Hey can I meet you hoe?)
She fly high, high in the sky, hoe I can’t see you (Well I can’t see you)
Got a condo on my wrist - girl, I’m cashin’ out (I’m cashin’ out)
Got a condo around my neck - girl, I’m cashin’ out (I’m cashin’ out)
36 O’s so I’m ridin’ ‘round with that nina
My diamonds talk for me, they say "Hi can I meet you?"

Nope, you can't sir, I wouldn't pick you up if you were ran over on the side on the road, no matter how many diamonds you have on. 

Dishonorable mentions:

Diamonds- Rihanna

Auto tuned, another example of her lack of singing ability, terrible lyrical content, it's a song about nothing. Yet another song she didn't write, bravo Ri Ri!

Feelin Single- R. Kelley

There is nothing positive about the musical direction of Mr. Kelley. This dancey, bring back the electric slide but not call it the electric slide music is not good. I need for 12 Play, R, R. Kelley to come back. This right here, you should have you feeling broke.

Breakfast Syrup- Kreayshawn, featuring  2 Chainz

Initially I thought this was Nicki Minaj, so that's how stupid this chicks flow is. This song could provoke suicide around the country and no one should blame them with lyrics like this:

Eight in the morning and I’m up yawning
My phone almost dead cause everyone is calling
It’s breakfast time and I need my apple jacks
And I need my fresh grape syrup and a money stack
We’re just popping off just to kill shit
And we drink a lot so we don’t feel shit
She’s in her birthday suit and she’s cooking too
Yeah it’s breakfast time but it’s only two

[Hook]
I-I-I-I’m hungry, hungry for this money
Call me Kreay Hefner, playboy bunny
‘Bout that juice, cheese, bread - breakfast (breakfast)
Stackin’ dough, for breakfast
I got all the syrup, I got, I got all the syrup
I got all the syrup, I got, I got all the syrup
‘Bout that juice, cheese, bread - breakfast (breakfast)
Stackin’ dough

The beat is a 2 Chainz beat, but like I have said, anything he is involved in is crap and so is this song...

More con"artists" will be added to this list as they keep putting more and more crap of songs that cause head mincing pain out for the next 2 months. 

Jay-Z and Beyonce to Host Obama Fundraiser, They are The 1%

My Girl Look So Good She Look Like A Bag of  Money...

Let Them Eat Cake

Surely they know this...Beyowulf might not... She claims that she has been "middle class" all her life, but her middle class is different from my interpretation of "middle class". A fashion designer mother and a music producer father, private tutors, living in a mansion is a bit different from an accountant or realtor parent.

But Jay-Z grew up in the streets at least that's what he tells us in his god forsaken repetitive lyrics in each mediocre Blue Print and now Watch the Throne album he craps out whenever he feels like pissing out something every couple of years. He lived a hard life in the projects, was a drug dealer, had to hustle and struggle, etc...all of those components that used to make hip hop an art form before it became name dropping the popular car of the minute, (Maybach, Phantom or Buggati), how low their chain is, how much ice their watch has, how much weed they smoke or how much their liquor cost, how they can buy the bar and how they can take any body's hoe because they are the coolest nigga in the world.

Jay-Z loves to present himself as a upgraded thug intellectual and I think that's mostly because he's old as hell and by comparison to Beyonce or Wacka Flocka, being called "smart" next to them is like being the smartest kid in the room with Down Syndrome. If the conversation is purely about rap or New York, then he's good. If it's anything else, it's bad, shockingly stupid. So it amazes me that he is hosting a party for a man that wants to raise his taxes. Someone who thinks he is a fat cat and an opportunistic leech. Maybe Obama isn't paying close attention, but Jigga Man utters GOP talking points out of those fat, dry rat lips.

Remember when Occupy Wall street was in the height of it's popularity? Jigga man decided to capitalize on the movement and commission shirts that said "Occupy All Streets", cool right? Except his cheap, swap meet, b.s. clothing line didn't donate any money to the movement. Jay-Z stated confusion as to what the mission or purpose of occupy was and said, "When you just say that 'the one percent is that,' that's not true. Yeah, the 1 percent that's robbing people, and deceiving people, these fixed mortgages and all these things, and then taking their home away from them, that's criminal, that's bad. Not being an entrepreneur. This is free enterprise. This is what America is built on." He goes on to say, "What's the thing on the wall, what are you fighting for? I'm not going to a park and picnic, I have no idea what to do, I don't know what the fight is about. What do we want, do you know?"

Did you forget where you came from Jay? What is the fight about? Didn't you come from the projects? Don't you try in vain to convince me that you a the Godfather or some type of hit man? Don't you try to convince me you are level headed, real, how hard you struggled, that you were damn near homeless sleeping on a card board box? Are you truly so unrelatable now, that all we have in common are black t-shirts? One of the criticisms of Watch the Throne and hip hop in general is the intense love of capitalism to a fault and the fact that the album was mediocre.  Where is the revolutionary satire that told stories of the plight of the poor and disenfranchised? That's what made rap popular and an art form that the suburban kids could relate to. Or is it just part of the art until they become part of the 1% and then they sell out to the highest bidder? Just sign the check...

 I can say for myself, I have never been homeless, lived in the projects, been exposed to drugs, or any destructive things that makes for good music. I have two parents that are still together, went to private school, college, law school, no kids, didn't get pregnant in high school, nothing bad...but if somehow I got $1Million, just one, I wouldn't just forget my entire life prior to getting money and then wonder "how the other side lives" or "why are these people pissed off about banks making record profits after the government bailed them out?" That's not a difficult concept. Maybe it is for him, maybe he got high on his on supply from back in the days when he was "dealing", and some of his brain cells were irreparably damaged. 

Love The Camel Toe?

I have said numerous times, if you have nothing of value to say, just stop talking and retire, and it appears, that now is the time. You have nothing of value to say. Just because you host a $40,000 a plate fundraiser at your club, means nothing when you are blithely unaware that you are people that Obamas constituents want to raise taxes on if not string up and send to the metaphorical Bastille. Every substandard trash song that you "artists" put out, every video that you are in where you flaunt your wealth, real or rented, every lyric, is part of the problem. It's a "let them eat cake" to everyone, and you don't have the artistic integrity to make the music good while you continue to steal money from the brainless and tasteless so you can wear Louis flip flops on the beach of St. Tropez with the Weave Wife.

You Mean Romney 2012?

While I recognize the huge influence of hip hop,  and pop artists on young, impressionable people. I think it's imperative that people learn to think for themselves, instead of  depending on these artists to educate and to think for them. Because, clearly, critical thinking skills isn't a strong point. Otherwise, my twitter feed wouldn't still have "Boycott Chris Brown" stupidity posts from the still manipulated media.  When we become as a society become less celebrity-driven, thinking what they say or do should be accepted as truth, then regardless of their stance on issues, people won't let it affect them. This is especially true for our youth. They must learn to think for themselves, gather knowledge and read. Celebrities are NOT gods or smart.They are human beings with their own thoughts and ideas and those thoughts and ideas are dictated by their labels and corporate puppet masters.

Jay-Z, the King of Hip Hop? He is a disease of this era of materialistic crap rap, who should be laughed out of the studio with his one percent mantra.

Obama you lie down with dogs you wake up with weaves. 

Chris Brown's misFortunate Gay Slur

Come out, come out wherever you are...

Take It To The Head

Several words come to mind when I think of Chris Brown. Arrogant, ass, jerk off, punk, bitch made, insecure, paranoid, ill-natured, obnoxious, whiny, childish, petty, abhorrent, irksome, rotten, flippant, shallow, trivial, acrimonious, petulant, pertinacious and crusty.

When it comes to Brown, I compartamentalize him, like I suspect most normal people do with celebrities. We know that they are probably the most wretched people to meet in life and have the worst attitudes on the planet, but we listen to their music and watch their movies and judge their body of work as a separate entity from the real person. It becomes more difficult when the artist becomes over-exposed like Beyonce' was a few years ago, then the personal persona and the character merge and that's when people just can't take anymore from them. Rihanna is heading down that territory, actually went down that road a year ago, but I digress...

Breezy has never been an "artist" that I really liked or listened to. I illegally downloaded a few songs, but an entire album, no. He can dance, can't sing, at least not without auto-tune, but what artist can sing without auto-tune these days. The music that he releases can only be described as generic at best and just plain laughable at worst. Let me save you some money and tell you the theme of his latest techno dancy, R&B disaster album "Fortune", "I got money, I got women, I love to drink, I love to party till I pass out,unprotected sex is fun." The End.

In true Chris Brown fashion, he has been running his mouth on Twitter, because that's what this new crop of celebrities do to stay relevant. They tweet nonsense and "act" stupid to get attention to add money to their bank account. This latest beef is with Frank Ocean, you know the guy that came out again as being gay. Chris thought it would be fun to say, "No Homo", on his feed. Understandably, people think that this statement is homphobic and now he is on the defensive. People still say "No Homo?" Probably only closeted homos that are pretending not to be homos say it, I guess.

@chrisbrown 
Chris Brown

My Opinion on the whole Frank Ocean subject is ......... Love who u wanna love. It's ur decision. People stop searching for BS.

July 30, 2012 12:52 pm via Twitter for iPhone Reply Retweet Favorite

Breezy, who cares about your opinion on Frank Ocean? You are the last person in the world that I would seek out for relationship advice, since YOUR record isn't quite pristine. That's like asking Oscar the Grouch to decorate my loft.


When Chris' lame pro choice tweet didn't win him over any fans, he responded with this one:

@chrisbrown 
Chris Brown

Everyone is so quick to point the wrong fingers at each other! Ask urself... Am I Doing everything I can to help the world ????

July 30, 2012 12:55 pm via Twitter for iPhone Reply Retweet Favorite

Fairy Fire

Didn't know there was a wrong finger, but for you Chris I do have a finger I can point at you, two of them actually. Yes, I feel your contribution to society with the lyrics, "I super soak that ho/ Show em No Love/ Throw em a Towel." Doesn't the world feel better already? Doesn't the lyrics sound like Superman by Soulja Boy? How do you steal lyrics from the "rapper" that singlehandedly destroyed rap and was named "the worst rapper of all time". Chris what are you doing to help the world? Playing victim is certainly not helping the world? Whenever things don't go his way, he blames others for his problems, via twitter. It's not my fault that I broke that window, it's the chairs fault because it happened to be in my hand when I threw it. I see why he and Rihanna made a great couple. Victimology is where you can find love in a hopeless place, then exploit the fallout for millions of dollars, depending on which side of the story you believe.


So Chris, is releasing bad music or worse generic music that assaults the ears for those with taste, morals, or knowledge of music like a bad bowel movement, your contribution to helping the world. Is it throwing or snatching phones from your mindless fans who for some reason defend you. Maybe sending relatives to chase Frank Ocean's car like you are really Gotti or some other gangster? That seems to be what everyone want's to be now... Is it smashing windows when someone mentions an event that you don't want to talk about because you lack the emotional maturity to just go to the gym or smoke a blunt in the car. Maybe getting in twitter wars with everyone from regular people to the chick you beat, who you in turn called an industry whore in a song. Those are all appropriate, rational responses that illustrate a well adjusted, happy, mature man or all your behavior tells the world that Chris Brown is mad dog in heat with the emotional maturity of a 5 year old, that deserves to be taken out into a field and shot. Hey, I got a question, What do you call a person that sleeps with an industry whore? An industry whore who goes both ways.

Furthermore, his latest album, is almost completely techno sounding, something they play at gay clubs or balls. It's almost like he went to every gay club in the country, heard that Euro-trash beat and said, "that's it, that hot fire." So, the evidence dictates non hetero status, piles up.

Chris Brown is the perfect example of the "down low" brother who portrays this hypersexual hetero sexual persona, but it's just a mask to cover up his homosexual tendencies. All his songs are about sex and not just romanticized love making, it's verbal porno, set to really bad beats, "coming inside, wetting the bed", and other things of that nature to assert his manhood or lack thereof.

Remember when he was outed by Raz B for having a boyfriend Andre Merritt? There are numerous other reports about him having other gay lovers, one guy named "Jordan", who was in his Kiss Kiss video. The boyfriend was on Youtube's "It's Get'sBetter" program. This lover takes a picture of him and Brown (what is believed to be Brown) getting dressed in some dirty ass hotel. He speaks of having threesomes with Brown with women, and claims that Rihanna was assaulted when she threatened to expose him that night. (I think she was singing)

What all this means is, just like Bishop Eddie Long Stroke, Ted Haggert and Larry Craig, if you focus on gays, and make continuous homophobic rants, etc...chances are YOU'RE GAY.  Someone that has had as many issues with his public image as he has, needs to shut the hell up and go in a room, take some time and learn how to write an actual song, instead of tweeting things that let's the cat out of the bag. What am I saying, artistic integrity is not something any of these kids have anymore, just add water, stir, and we have a hit single. 

That red carpet is at the closet door waiting for you to come out Chris, just turn the doorknob. Furthermore, send out Kanye while your at it. 

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