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— Bristol Palin (via fatmanatee) (via jessicachu) Ohhhhhh. Bristol. Sigh. Anyway, Bristol, did you see my Sarisha Palin video?
Today’s Visualization Project. Why not?
Stephanopoulos & McCain for reasons unknown decided to conduct an interview on twitter. This seemed asinine and annoying to me until I saw that Steph called it “an interesting experiment.” I love social experiments so at that point I was in. Hell, I thought that being on a reality show was a fab social experiment.
Here’s the transcript:
SenJohnMcCain hi george im a little slow
SenJohnMcCainHappy St. Patricks day
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain Happy St Patrick’s Day! First things first: How do u tweet — dictate or type? Blackberry or pc?
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos Happy St. Patrick’s day - slow, sometimes pc somtimes bb
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain AIG: Would a President McCain break bonus contracts? Obama teams says that would cause more harm than good
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos i would have never bailed out AIG, the real scandal is billions to foreign banks.
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain ok, but today: should bonus contracts be broken? Dodd wants a targeted tax on bonuses OK with that?
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos i haven’t seen it but i would explore every option. i repeat, we wouldn’t have this problem if we hadn’t bailed them out
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain RIght, but didn’t you vote for first TARP, which went to AIG?
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos i voted for first tarp but that doesn’t mean i voted to bail out AIG.
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain Obama says GOP can’t “just say no” on budget Will you offer a full alternative to Obama budget?
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos I’m working with others on alternatives - cong paul ryan has some great ideas.
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos to follow up - first AIG bailout was pre-tarp.
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain Take point on 1st AIG bailout How about budget? Will you offer alternative?
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain What worries you more: Pakistan or Iran?
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos both. the challenges are different but both significant.
GStephanopoulos@SenJohMcCain Cheney said on CNN that Obama putting US at risk of new terror attack Agree?
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos too early to draw that conclusion.
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain Lots of twitterers want to know: what do you think of Meghan’s feud with Coulter and Ingraham?
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos I’m proud of my daughter and she has a right to her opinions.
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos like any family we agree on some things and disagree on others.
GStephanopoulos@SenJohnMcCain Thanks for your time Senator.You’re a good sport I know I’m not getting anymore on Coulter and Ingraham Happy St Pat’s again
SenJohnMcCain@GStephanopoulos Thanks a lot george, let’s do it again soon. now i look forward to reading our followers comments and insults.
SenJohnMcCain had a lot of fun george: http://tinyurl.com/dl2w9t
Watch the video…
If you disagree, oh well, I guess then you’ll just have to vote for Senator Obama. AND while you’re at it, join me and 300 of my closest friends next Tuesday July 29th for my birthday party at Club Splash, the biggest gay men’s club in the city. It is going to be HOT and it’s thrown by my buddies the Nathans, Nathan Seven Scott and Nathan Williams. 8pm in NYC. It’s a Rock the Vote Party - Come, dance, register to vote and when you can’t stand any more fabulosity, Zelma Davis of C+C Music Factory will take the stage to turn out “I’m Every Woman.” Whew!!! ;-) See you there: Tuesday, July 29th 9pm 50 W 17 St. NYC 212.691.0073 
Rock the Vote is a non partisan organization and does not endorse any one candidate.
“this was the time when we remade our nation to reflect our highest ideals and our very best selves!” -barack obama YEAH!
Check out my community challenge. Send a link of your 60 seconds or less clip telling me about your community and we may use it for an upcoming show. We can’t wait to see it!
Shortly after we set this vid to air, I saw a Starbucks sign appear on my block. Coincidence? I think not! ;-D
Unarmed man murdered by NYPD.
Or Vice President at least! ;-D I am so excited to tell you about what a big success V to the 10th was. Eve Ensler is the playwright who wrote The Vagina Monologues, and activist who works worldwide with her organization V-Day to stop violence against women and girls everywhere form Africa to Albuquerque. My writing is featured in her last anthology A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer alongside the writing of Maya Angelou, Edward Albee, Edwidge Danticat, Howard Zinn, David Eggers, Patricia Bosworth, Carol Gilligan, Erica Cressida Wilson, Elizabeth Lesser and others, and I also created the Vagina Warriors Film Festival for her which took place at the Museum of the City of NY and Museum of TV and Radio. 
The latest venture for this magic woman was to go into the forgotten New Orleans mess and turn that horrific superdome into a dome of love for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. I thought that I was going to be able to go help with workshops etc, but unfortunately, I was unable to. Read more about it on her site. They called it Superlove and 10,000 people were there on the first day! Kerry Washington and Rosario Dawson were in attendance.
Whoo Hoo…. Hello My Lovely Goddesses & Goddess Lovers,
Yay- Springtime…. Here are the facts, just the facts. A simple list. Draw your own you-a-licious conclusion!
10. Death Match: Rabid Feminist vs Saccharine Pageant Princess. The other day I was minding my business, loafing off from my 15 jobs and I decided to do a little media research. You may call this channel surfing. Anyway, I happened upon the TV show Wife Swap. The premise of the show is for two families on the opposite ends of any spectrum to swap moms for a week. It’s like Freaky Friday on crack. Hilarity Ensues. I wondered why people would sign up for such an invasive social experiment until I learned that they make around twenty thousand bucks for their week of troubles. Understood. Catch me on the right week and for 20K I might trade spaces with the old lady next door married to the guy I secretly suspect may be a war criminal. Anyway, the episode headline was PAGEANT QUEEN SWAPS WITH FEMINIST. Being a feminist who has been a pageant queen, I was amused. It was all so cookie cutter and stereotypical. The pageant queen mom was probably the one mother in America who only wanted her daughter to only look good and frowned upon studying. The feminist mother was against any attempts at beautification, which they called glitter, at first. The whole thing played into the aren’t we done with that yet myth that feminists all are butchy Birkenstock wearers. Not that anything is wrong with butchy Birkenstock wearers, but the whole thing was just more than ridiculous. Where did they find these people?
9. Ninety nine problems. The New York Post reported that presidential candidate Barack Obama entered a rally to Jay Z’s hit song 99 Problems, which touts the lyrics “I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one.” I don’t know Barack Obama, but from what I do know of him, I doubt that he would personally choose to play a song like this as a put down to Hilary Clinton. However, it made me sad when I looked up the video on youtube and one of the comments on the song was from a guy saying, “Yeah, Hilary is a bitch.” This is problematic on so many levels.
8. The Hillary – Obama “Question.” Feminism still matters because in this post millennial universe where so many nations, Western, developing and otherwise have been led by women, it is still a question in America. “Are we ready for a female president?” “Is America ready,” everyone seems to be asking. “Are we ready for a black president?” It is extremely unfortunate for us that we would still feel the need to even ponder this.
7. Afrodite Superstar. I direct feminist art films. My themes and topics have included spousal abuse, mental illness, interracial love and erotica. That’s right, erotica. What the heck does this have to do with feminism? In some countries in Africa and the middle east, female genital circumcision is practiced as a way of controlling girls and women. For example, it is preached that women who have a clitoris are dangerous as a clitoris only exists for purposes of pleasure. So they excise the clitoris. Barbaric, right? Much like the fact that vaginal tightening and rejuvenation as a gift for one’s spouse is on the rise. At any rate, in America, women’s pleasure is seen as dangerous too. We are only to be bodies, passively seen and not heard. Our voices must be represented on all fronts. There is a place for pleasure in communities that have been traditionally victimized. We can’t be politically empowered if we don’t first own our bodies and feel emotionally empowered as well.
6. V is for Victory. I have worked with Eve Ensler’s V-Day on the mission of stopping violence against women and girls. You know Eve, right? She’s the goddess who wrote the revolutionary Vagina Monologues and made us all feel comfortable saying the V word. Eve Ensler is an activist, playwright and tireless advocate for the safety and health of women worldwide. When I created the Vagina Warriors Film Festival as a part of her initiative, an associate asked me: “If you are not getting paid for this, why are you doing it? Aren’t women’s rights solved?” I broke it all down for her and explained that women still make cents on the dollar as compared to men for equal work. Furthermore, the New York City Museum who was hosting the festival asked me to change the name to the Until the Violence Stops Film Festival because they didn’t think that their conservative patrons would feel comfortable attending an event call Vagina Warriors. Yeesh! What was that part about us all becoming comfortable again?
5. Street Harassment. Yes, I have a big butt. Butts like mine unfortunately pepper music videos and illicit magazine covers. This does not give you the right, cat callers and wolf whistlers, to abuse me with your words on the street. How dare you? Does this work for you as a way to “pick up” women? Being a man does not give you dominion over women you don’t know on the street, no matter how complimentary you think that you are being. Holla back, y’all.
4. Robin Givens, Mike Tyson and The Beauty Queen. I think that we have come to agree after boxer Mike Tyson bit off opponent Evander Holyfield’s ear that Tyson is a deeply troubled man to say the least, right? Last year, his ex, actress Robin Givens wrote an autobiography detailing their violent relationship. I was with friends and someone mentioned the book. Several people in the room started carrying on about how Givens was a gold digging bitch who had set Tyson up to look bad, in addition to further arguing that the beauty queen that he was convicted of raping was also a lying bitch. Both of these women it was concluded were trying to milk Tyson out of his money. How ridiculous that a man who has a recorded history of drug and bipolar issues, violence and anger problems, would be given the benefit of the doubt over women claiming to be his victims. Wow.
3. My Favorite Magazines. A beau of mine came a’calling the other afternoon. He was surprised to find a pile of periodical research in the corner of the living room. You may call them fashion magazines. As he held up the copies in amusement and as if he had caught me with Penthouse, I explained for him that these magazines, surprisingly, had really meaningful articles. And I’m not just talking the best ways to freshen your eyeliner. Yeah, I buy them for the articles, that’s the ticket. I dared him to pick any two mags from the stack. I opened and spun through his first random choice—BAM—an article on women in Afghanistan. He handed me the other—BAM—- an article on female genital circumcision. Yup. They hide the vitamins in candy. These are not articles that they would list on their front covers though. They are always well researched, personal, well written, and in every magazine, but hidden. Why?
2. My Rap Chicas, Where u At? For most female rappers, their posters sell better than their music. So you wanna look at us but not hear what we have to say, is that it?! Ai Dios Mio. The whole thing is so distressing that I tabled my own personal coming of age tale and centered my whole hip hop feminist debut novel Dare around it. Dare is about a sociologist who goes undercover as an emcee and discovers that she likes her new life better than her old one. Women in hip hop, stand up.
1. The F Word. On my BET J TV show, someone asked me once whether I am more black or more a woman, as if I could split myself in two. My allegiance is to overall well being and wholeness. For me, feminism means the equality of all people. Gender-wise, I only focus on women because this is where the inequity lies.
The very fact is that feminism is the real f-word that no one wants to be identified with is reason number one of why feminism still matters. Hey— call it womanism if that soothes your soul. Call it whatever. Just call on yourself to stand up and be counted, my male and female feminists. Rock on!
Epsiode 6. 
PART ONE
PART TWO
Produced & Directed by Leslie Norville & Corene Antoinette. Edited by Alex David.
Episode 2 
Episode Directed by Tasha “Sashalicious” Morris & Edited by Kanokon Sookaram. Featuring Damali Abrams.
raise your hand if you think that it is utterly HILARIOUS that barack obama asked elizabeth on the view: “what would happen if someone made a clip of the five stupidest things you’ve ever said and played them in a continuous loop?” Lizzy- FYI- Don’t answer that, dear. & Prez, sorry but this would be a miniseries, not a clip!!! WATCH this clip where she says that New Kids on The Block are The Beatles of our Generation!
Americans have a choice between staying the course and a new direction for our country. After six years of Republican leadership, some Americans may be considering doing something they haven’t done in a long time. Vote for a Democrat. If you vote for a Democrat on Tuesday, we will honor the trust you put in us with a new direction for America. Isn’t it time for a new direction in Iraq?
Sixteen intelligence agencies agree that the Bush administration’s failed Iraq policy is increasing terrorism around the world. Our troops have become occupiers caught in a civil war. Democrats are united behind a strategy of phased redeployment and benchmarks that make it clear to the Iraqis that they must take responsibility for the future of their country.
Isn’t it time for a new direction in fighting the war on terror?
The harmful policies of the GOP have failed hard-working Americans. Republicans have waged a war on the family. The Bush economy has failed 80% of Americans, benefiting only the top 1%. For most Americans, wages and incomes have slowed; health care costs and personal debt have increased. Home mortgage foreclosures are up; college tuition has skyrocketed. Isn’t it time for responsible, competent leadership and an end to the politics of deficits, divisiveness and deceit?
Howard Dean is chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
(Illustration by Web Bryant, USA TODAY)
