Thirteen Cardinal Virtues

I wish they’d put this in some of our kid’s Happy Meals… From one of America’s Greatest thinkers…

Temperance– Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation

Silence–  Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself, avoid trifling conversation.

Order–  Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Resolution– Resolve to perform what your ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Frugality–  Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing.

Industry–  Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

Sincerity–  Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak according.

Justice–  Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are you duty.

Moderation–  Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Cleanliness–  Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.

Tranquillity–  Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Chastity…….

Humility–  Imitate Jesus and Socrates

Ben Franklin

Wikipedia doesn’t like Black People either

It must be hacks-are-us online tonight…

Apparently someone thought it was funny to change Kanye West to “Niggay Pest” on a great public website.

Niggay Pest (pronounced ˈkɑnjeɪ) (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American record producer and rapper from Chicago, Illinois.

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

Previously best known for producing hit singles for Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, and Ludacris, West himself worked on a solo album for a long period of time, having the release pushed back time and time again. Due to his appearance and overall style, West struggled to find a way to get his own voice on record. Multiple record companies put him aside due to the fact that West is from the suburbs of Chicago, not a former ‘street hustler’ or even one that wears the orthodox hip-hop apparel. A car crash on October 23, 2002 left his jaw fractured in three places. With his mouth still wired shut and only weeks after having an encounter with death, Kanye West began recording “Through The Wire,” reliving his near-fatal accident. “Through The Wire”, which sampled Chaka Khan’s classic track “Through The Fire”, would eventually become his lead single from The College Dropout, which was released on Roc-a-Fella Records in February 2004. Niggay Pest also has his own clothing line – “Pester Clothing” , and his own record label – “GOOD Music” (an acronym for Getting Out Our Dreams), under which John Legend’s platinum selling debut album Get Lifted has been released, along with Common’s latest album – “Be”. Other artists on his label include GLC, Consequence, and Farnsworth Bentley.

On August 30th, 2005, Niggay Pest released his second album Late Registration. “Diamonds (From Sierra Leone)” (which contained samples from Shirley Bassey’s “Diamonds Are Forever”) and “Gold Digger”, were the first two singles from Late Registration, the album sold over 904,000 in its first week. Pest announced that his 3rd and 4th albums will be titled “Graduation” and “A Good Ass Job”, respectively.

In 2005, Niggay Pest received ten Grammy Award nominations, making him the most nominated artist of 2005. He received two nominations in the Album of the Year category, one for The College Dropout, and one for his work on Alicia Keys’ album The Diary of Alicia Keys. His work with pop icon Janet Jackson also earned him a nomination for her single I Want You, produced by Pest, which was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Afterwards, he strongly criticized the music industry as he only won 3 of the 10 awards, and he felt he deserved all of them.

At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony held on February 13, 2005, Niggay won Best Rap Album for his album The College Dropout and Best Rap Song for his single “Jesus Walks”.

In 2004, Kanye appeared on MTV’s prank show, Punk’d. Ashton Kutcher tricked Kanye into thinking that his music video shoot for the song “Jesus Walks” was censored by the Los Angeles Film Commission due to a “rule” about filming on Sundays without a permit. To the audience’s amusement, Niggay stole back the music video footage from them and then jumped into his van for his safety until Ashton Kutcher stopped the van.

Niggay has collaborated with numerous artists including rapper Twista, on songs such as “Overnight Celebrity” and “Slow Jamz” (also featuring Jamie Foxx) – which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. Niggay also features on Brandy’s single, “Talk About Our Love”. Some of the many other artists he has worked with include Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, Dilated Peoples, Mariah Carey and John Legend. Niggay Pest is also credited with revitalizing and bringing new life into the careers of such rappers as Common and Twista.

On September 8, 2005, in a live-via-satellite concert for the NFL season opener between the Oakland Raiders and the New England Patriots, West performed “Heard ‘Em Say.”

Political views

Pest criticizes President Bush during Hurricane Katrina benefit concert. Mike Myers is on the left.Wikinews has news related to this article:
Rapper Niggay Pest denounces Bush response, American media at hurricane relief telethonOn 2 July 2005 West appeared on the Philadelphia bill of Live 8, using the global platform to refer to “man-made diseases placed in African communities”, expressing his belief that AIDS was created by the U.S. government to exterminate Africans in Africa (see also OPV AIDS hypothesis). He made the parallel between the government using AIDS to exterminate Africans and using crack to destroy African-American communities and halt the civil rights movement. He also criticised politicians for “riding home in their Benzs and Bentleys while poor Africans starve”.

In a 2005 MTV interview, West criticised the hip-hop community over the discrimination and epithets directed toward homosexuals, “Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates. And I [wanted to just] come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, ‘Yo, stop it.'” The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation recently recognized West for these comments, and for the tolerant views that he models.

On September 2, 2005, during a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina relief on NBC, Niggay Pest deviated from the prepared script and claimed that the National Guardsmen dispatched to New Orleans were under orders to shoot looters, criticizing the government’s response to the crisis and alleging racism in the media. Pest stated, “I hate the way they portray us in the media, even if it’s complete true.” While allowing that “the Red Cross is doing everything they can,” West declared that government authorities are intentionally dragging their feet on aid to the Gulf Coast. He even said that “They’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us.” [1]. West concluded his remarks with, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”. Although the camera quickly cut away, West’s comments still reached the US East Coast in the live news-feed, but were censored by the network when the concert was re-broadcast on the West Coast three hours later.

Niggay Pest also has his own clothing line – “Pester Clothing”

Well not “pester clothing” apparently it will be called Mascott

More Terror Tapes than Diddy Name Changes

“Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Allah willing. And this time, don’t count on us demonstrating restraint and compassion…”

What’s up with this new terror-threat?  Not to get too conspiratorial or anything–  but how come these tapes seem to be released when Bush needs a lift?
The last time we heard from the american terror guy (he kinda’ looks like Hurley from Lost by the way) it was what, 2 or 3 days before last year’s election?  

Remember the streets will run red with blood speech on October 28, 04?

“No, my fellow countrymen you are guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. You are as guilty as Bush and Cheney. You’re as guilty as Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and Powell…”

Followed by Osama’s post election kinda’ threat that had Cronkite smelling something fishy

CRONKITE: What we just heard. So now the question is basically right now, how will this affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I’m a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaigns right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa explosive dump. Right now, that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign.

Do they have a tape collection of threats to use when needed?  

If that’s the case I propose making a terror radio station (wthrt in cincinnati?)  So that way I can call and request certain terror recordings depending on my mood…  Oh, and tara reid can be the translator, naked…  Sexy terror threats…

I’ll shut up now  

Of Beer and Alien Meat

Anyone ever wonder what alien meat would taste like?  

Please forgive me, I have nothing important to add to any political discourse…  I’m especially not as smart as the susans and petty much anyone else here =)…  and, although i really wish i did, i have not been to camp casey

But I figured I should at least have one really bad diary, and since friday belongs to michelob I figured I’d sneak one past everybody.

Yet…  What alien shall we grill tonight?
I mean, is this why Aliens don’t visit our planet…?  Because they look down and see that humans are eating pretty much anything not-human (and some soccer teams even did that)…

I’ve eaten, snail, alligator, frogs (sorry kermit & booman logo), mahi mahi, deer meat loaf, crab cakes, cow, pickled pigs feet (a dare mind you) and even a few gnats while riding my bike….  

Whats to stop me from breaking out the Lobster Bib and large kitchen wall knife and spoon to welcome some damn UFO pilots?

I mean we eat pretty much any meat on the planet, from plentiful to the whoops going extinct…  We have soups made from bird’s regurgitated nests (http://chinesefood.about.com/library/bltrivia33.htm), to shark fin soup, to eating those damn cute hopping australia pikachu looking things, and probably worse…

As far as I see it we are an alien landing or crop circle mishap away from expensive alien-bbq restaurants…  

How will we decide what aliens to eat?  I mean, an alien is not a human right, so it’s not cannibalism.  Will we only not eat the master alien race?  And stick to space cows?

Even if there are space cows, they’re still aliens right?  Will we not eat alien meat out of fear for some planet X mad cow?  Are we going to make the choice by whatever alien matches inteligece with our own food supply?

What if space cows dominate the other end of the universe and humans are the grazing cud chomping burger meat…?

Will we partake in eating the space apes or will we try to liberate them and eat their enemies?

Are any aliens seeing these crappy BK chicken fries commercials on free tv flying out into space, wanting to eat us just to do the galaxy a favor?

What if, right now in deep space, aliens are planning to come here with spears and dreadlocks to hunt down our governors…  oh, oops…  

My next deep and yet bizarre question is, has anyone ever joined the 200 mile club?  if not I need to hop a virgin galactic flight with a new and seriously kick ass pick up line….   we’ll make history!

I’ll shut up now.