Martin Luther King Junior Day

On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 helped organized the first major protest of the African-American civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott. Influenced by Mohandas Gandhi, he advocated civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to segregation in the South. The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with violence, but King and his followers persisted, and the movement gained momentum.

A powerful orator, King appealed to Christian and American ideals and won growing support from the federal government and Northern whites. In 1963, Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph led the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; the event's grand finale was King's famous "I Have a Dream" address. Two hundred and fifty thousand people gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial to hear the stirring speech. In 1964, the civil rights movement achieved two of its greatest successes: the ratification of the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public facilities. Later that year, King became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In the late 1960s, King openly criticized U.S. involvement in Vietnam and turned his efforts to winning economic rights for poor Americans. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH


As a proud African American, daughter of parents who rose from extreme poverty to great heights today is a great day, and it isn't a great day only for black people but for any person who values peace, freedom and equality. This message was made many years ago but still applies to our society today as we continue to fight hate and ignorance. This speech gives me chills, have a beautiful day, treat people with even more respect today than usual, if youre off work, do something nice for someone, actively spread peace!!!

THE LAST DAY OF HIS REIGN OF TERROR

Ignorance, poverty, war, hatred, confusion, lies, corruption, stupidity, world grief, distrust, fear, finger pointing, selfishness, stealing from the poor.

RING THE BELLS OF PEACE HOPE AND CHANGE!!!

LOST Premiere Party!

A MUST FOR LOSTIES!!
We've made up some awesome gift bags for trivia between commercial breaks, there are LOST related drink specials, fish biscuits for all and LOST for three glorious hours!!! Dont miss out!!! ITS FREE!!!!

Grand Re-opening of Subtext, Tonight!!

Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 16th, 6-10pm, Live Music from The Traditionist at 9pm




The sketchier (and therefore WAY more hip) side of Little Italy just got a whole lot cooler as Subtext moves from it's Cedar street location to 2479 Kettner and Laurel right across from The Casbah. They've teamed up with local promoting force Sezio to put on what should be a fun event. Bands (The Tradionist), art (Wonderful photography exhibit by Frank Rogozienski called 366 | 08), cool people and the belly of a plane soaring right over you into the San Diego skyline. This is going to be a great time!

Great Art Show, Fresh Ideas, Tomorrow!!

From The Citybeat:
Jeff Faeth, Sean Kelley and Stacy Kelley, the artists behind the roaming arts collective Sanctuary 143, are putting on their next art-and-culture happening, Conspire, at Community @ The Martin Building and Flats (401 Olive St. in Bankers Hill) from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17. The hip new art- and communal-minded residential complex will be the backdrop as 10 artists and musicians, including Mike Maxwell, Joel P. West, Wes Bruce and Acamonchi, present art, sculpture and music. Local indie shops Velo Cult, Subtext and Hi-Octane Jewelry will also set up shop. For RSVP details and more, visit www.sanctuary143.com.

On This Day in History: The "Witch of Buchenwald" is sentenced to prison

On this day, Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Ilse Koch was nicknamed the "Witch of Buchenwald" for her extraordinary sadism.

Born in Dresden, Germany, Ilse, a librarian, married SS. Col. Karl Koch in 1936. Colonel Koch, a man with his own reputation for sadism, was the commandant of the Sashsenhausen concentration camp, two miles north of Berlin. He was transferred after three years to Buchenwald concentration camp, 4.5 miles northwest of Weimar; the Buchenwald concentration camp held a total of 20,000 slave laborers during the war.

Ilse, a large woman with red hair, was given free reign in the camp, whipping prisoners with her riding crop as she rode by on her horse, forcing prisoners to have sex with her, and, most horrifying, collecting lampshades, book covers, and gloves made from the skin of tattooed camp prisoners.


A German inmate gave the following testimony during the Nuremberg war trials: "All prisoners with tattooing on them were to report to the dispensary.... After the prisoners had been examined, the ones with the best and most artistic specimens were killed by injections. The corpses were then turned over to the pathological department, where the desired pieces of tattooed skin were detached from the bodies and treated further."

Karl Koch was arrested, ironically enough, by his SS superiors for "having gone too far." It seems he had a penchant for stealing even the belongings of wealthy, well-placed Germans. He was tried and hanged in 1944. Ilse Koch was tried for crimes against humanity at Nuremberg and sentenced to life in prison, but the American military governor of the occupied zone subsequently reduced her sentence to four years. His reason, "lack of evidence," caused a Senate investigation back home. She was released but arrested again, tried by a West German court, and sentenced to life. She committed suicide in 1967 by hanging herself with a bedsheet.

Bush Explains His Work on The Daily Show

This episode of The Daily Show is great, just great. It shows all the interviews that Bush has been having on his way out of office. Shows the tactics he uses to completely relinquish responsibility for the unsuccessful, and arguably disaster of a war, fall of the stock market, and just the general dislike and distrust that was cast on us for the last 8 years by the world. John Stewart and his team are so excellent and skilled at shedding light on simplicities people don't want to see. Check it out, great journalism and commentary. Also, great upcoming movie plug at the end!

MPP Video: The Actual Cost of Marijuana

This two minute video does a concise job of explaining how much the US could gain in legalizing and taxing marijuana and yet how much it spends prohibiting marijuana use (with very little success). It's not about wanting to get high all the time without the fuzz on your back, its about having an extra 10-30 billion dollars a year to feed families who can't eat, veterans who live on the street eating garbage, funding wind and solar energy research, paying school teachers a livable wage, ANYTHING!!!

Missed Connection: Casbah Love

Whoa, didn't know people who used the word "Dago" instead of San Diego enjoyed The Casbah like the rest of us!! Also, didn't know you could wear roller skates to The Casbah. What an enigma this casbah......

sexy punk rock roller skater at the casbah last night - m4w - 30 (Dago)
Reply to: pers-993493444@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-01-14, 8:52PM PST


Loved the look, the attitude and the tattoo's. We should wrestle!!! LOL




* Location: Dago
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

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Hurley From Lost, San Clemente High Graduate with Honors

Jorge Garcia, although Nebraska born, grew up in SoCal and even went to San Clemente High School (where he received the highest award for a graduating senior), sweet! And since it's hard to figure out what nationality Jorge is if not Samoan, I will let you know he is of Cuban an Chilean descent. He came to fame as "Hector" on Becker and was the first actor to be cast on Lost. The producers saw him on Curb Your Enthusiasm the night before casting began, and created the character of Hugo Reyes specifically for him.

LOST Season 5 Premiere Party at The Whistlestop

Odd Yard Sale Find

On This Day In History: "The Twist" goes gold-again

Chubby Checker's hit "The Twist" becomes the first song to reach the No. 1 spot twice in two years. "The Twist" had hit the top of the charts in September 1960. The song, widely considered one of the most successful singles of all time, was on the Top 100 charts for 39 weeks, longer than any other single except "Red Red Wine" by UB40. When an early recording of "The Twist" by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters became the top dance song on Dick Clark's American Bandstand but failed to get much radio play, Clark suggested that a new artist should record a cover. Singer Ernest Evans of Cameo Records recorded the song and changed his name to Chubby Checker as a takeoff on Fats Domino. The song hit the charts in 1960 when it became immensely popular with teenagers, but adults started buying the record in 1962, after Chubby Checker sang "The Twist" on Ed Sullivan's October 22 show.

Thavius Beck at Kava Lounge Tonight, Don't Miss!!

Thavius Beck
K-The-I???
Left Handed Scientists

On This Day In History: Laker winning streak comes to an end

On January 9, 1972, the 24-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leads the Milwaukee Bucks in a 120-104 victory over Wilt Chamberlain and the Los Angeles Lakers, breaking the Lakers’ record 33-game winning streak, the longest of any team in American professional sports.
Coached by former Boston Celtics star Bill Sharman and led by future Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Gail Goodrich, the 1971-72 Lakers began their historic run of victories on November 5, 1971 when they beat the Baltimore Bullets in Baltimore, 110-106. They set a new NBA record with their 21st win on December 11, beating the Atlanta Hawks 104-95 and surpassing the 20-game winning streak the Bucks had put together the previous year.


The defending National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Bucks got their revenge on January 9, when a keyed-up Abdul-Jabbar scored 39 points, outplaying Chamberlain (15 points) with more rebounds (20 vs. 12), blocked shots (10 vs. 6) and assists (5 vs. 2). Abdul-Jabbar’s dominance, combined with a "get-back" defense formulated by Bucks Coach Larry Costello, decisively halted the Lakers’ historic streak.
After ending their season with a then-record 69 wins, Chamberlain and his team beat the Bucks in the Western division title match. This got them a berth in the NBA finals, where they decisively defeated the New York Knicks, four games to one. Chamberlain retired from professional basketball in 1973, and two years later Abdul-Jabbar joined the Lakers, where he later teamed with Magic Johnson to make Los Angeles the dominant team of the 1980s.

Local GAP Commerical, Spike Jonze

Beautiful Night Shots of London

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Nice, France

This gorgeous southern France city on the French Riviera is pronounced as if you are saying NEICE, not nice. Just so you know.

Seattle Boozing

In Seattle if you want to buy hard alcohol you have to go to a special privately owned (yet state regulated) store to buy it. You can beer and wine at your local grocery store or liquor store but if you want a tequila sunrise, gin and tonic or whiskey coke you have to head to a separate location. While on vacation with a friend we needed some vodka to add in with our cranberry juice. We arrived at a clandestine store under a dark bridge in a part of town where I'm sure more than a fair share of people have been mugged or murdered. I almost thought we were going to a speakeasy, that hard alcohol had been outlawed without our knowledge and we were doing something illegal. Security guards checked ID at the door, hell I thought, there better be a dance floor, karaoke and a bar in there for all this trouble. And then we walked into a super bright huge room where hard alcohol lined the walls. Liquor of all sorts. Instant smiles sprang to our faces. Oh the endless possibilities on the road to drunkdom.

Yea but bottom line. The whole system TOTALLY blows. I like picking up my tequila while I buy my cigs, orange juice, advil, and Funyuns thank you very much. Gotta love California for that. Sunday alcohol sales became legal in Seattle only three years ago!! But to be fair, I did find that the reason liquor is sold separate is to protect the booming and precious beer and wine industries of Washington, not to create some sort of Big Brother/Prohibition Esque State. Yeeeeaaa....still blows:)

On This Day In History: William Randolph Hearst Stops Citizen Kane Ads

From The History Channel Website
American mogul William Randolph Hearst, owner of the Hearst newspaper chain, forbids any of his newspapers from accepting ads for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, slated for release later in the year. The film was generally interpreted as a psychological study of Hearst, portrayed as the fictional Charles Foster Kane.
In March 1941, Welles threatened to sue Hearst for trying to suppress the film, and RKO if it failed to release the film. The film premiered May 1, 1941, at the RKO Palace in New York and became one of the most highly regarded films of all time.
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and raised in Chicago, Welles was well versed in Shakespeare before he finished grade school. He excelled in poetry, music, cartooning, and magic. After high school, Welles-the son of an inventor and a concert pianist-chose to travel the world rather than attend college, and he launched his acting career in Ireland in 1931.
He came back to the United States in 1932 but was snubbed by Broadway, so he traveled to Spain, where he performed as a bullfighter. He returned to the United States soon thereafter and this time landed the role of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway. In 1937, he founded the Mercury Theater, home of innovative stage and radio drama. A noted radio artist, Welles' version of The War of the Worlds was so realistic that many listeners actually believed Martians had invaded New Jersey.

At age 25, Welles produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in the Academy Award-winning Citizen Kane, his first foray into motion pictures. The film told the story of Kane, who muscled his way from rags to riches using unscrupulous tactics, while his desire for power destroyed his marriage and alienated his friends. The manager of Kane's newspapers was named after Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a Chicago physician who raised Welles after he was orphaned at age 12. Though Citizen Kane wasn't commercially successful, the film won praise for its unique camera and sound work, which influenced filmmakers around the world. Indeed, it topped the list in the American Film Institute's 1998 poll of America's100 Greatest Films. After Citizen Kane, Welles' diverse works included everything from Shakespearean adaptations to documentaries. Some of his acclaimed films included The Stranger (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), and Chimes at Midnight (1966). In his later years, he narrated documentaries and appeared in commercials, and he left behind numerous unfinished films when he died in 1985. He was a recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.

Some Big Upcoming Dates!!

Martin Luther King Day- January 19th
The Inauguration of Barack Obama- January 20th
The premiere of Lost, Season 5- January 21st
Full Moon- January 26th
The Super Bowl- February 1st

The Waltons, 2 Very Different Families

Goodnight Mary, Goodnight John Boy....That's how the popular 70's TV show ended each episode. The Walton's centered around the titular family growing up in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II. But I'm not talking about this lovable podunk family from TV. I'm talking about THE WALTONS. The family that fucking owns Wal-Mart dude.
Check out their stats from AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst List!:

The patriarch of the Walton family, the wealthiest family in the world, is Sam Walton, founder of retail giants Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and Sam's Club. Forbes called him the richest man in the world from 1985 to 1988, and Time magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people of the twentieth century. Papa Walton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 from President George H.W. Bush. When Sam died in April of 1992, his eldest son, Rob, succeeded him as chairman of the board. Sam's widow and other children, John, Jim, and Alice, all own shares in the company, and members of the family held five spots in the top ten richest people in the United States until 2005. It has been suggested that if Sam were still alive today, his wealth would be nearly double that of Bill Gates, fellow nominee in this category.

John Walton, a Green Beret, saw action in the Vietnam War and was awarded the Silver Star. He sat on the Wal-Mart board until he died in a plane crash in 2005, at which time he was worth an estimated $18 billion, tied with his brother Jim as the eleventh richest person in the world, according to Forbes.

Helen Walton, Sam's widow, and her daughter Alice each have an estimated net worth of around $18 billion. Jim Walton's estimated net worth is around $15 billion. The daughters of Sam's partner and brother, Bud Walton, also hold shares in the company and are billionaires as well.
Read More on America's Richest Family, The Waltons

Sushi Fix Review

Sushi can be a volatile meal. As can any fare that includes raw fish, seaweed and an assortment of marine life eggs. If you grew up in a typical American, pb&j eating family you started eating sushi during college mostly to keep up with your friends. You all were swallowing it down whole so as not to taste the slimy lump of fish atop who knows what rolled in who knows what. But then you got used to it, you started enjoying it and know you crave it. You have your fav sushi place, you order rolls with even crazier stuff in an effort to continue impressing your friends who are still only eating cali rolls. Ah, sushi.
If youre in a sushi slump, youre still trying to reconcile with it, or you love it and want to try something new, check out Sushi Fix in Little Italy. It’s definitely a sushi experience unlike any other. It’s basically fast food sushi, which yes I know, I don’t want my raw fish anywhere near the American invention of speed preparation and consumption but this sushi is BOMB. It’s just unnerving at first to see a bunch of young white people wearing whatever they want under a Sushi Fix tee-shirt preparing my sushi. But all it took to change my mind was tasting the sushi. It was their incredibly delicious and my now favorite roll The Spicy Crunchy Cali Roll.

It’s an insane twist on the much familiar cali roll. A creamy red sauce and spicy Siracha are added to the favorite cali roll and tempura crumbles are all over the top. Add on some of their delicious signature eel sauce and you've got an explosion in the mouth. They even have great sides and basics such as their fine miso soup and green tea ice cream. The cost is about the same as a sushi restaurant but you don’t have to add 20% tip unless you want to and you can order it to go if you don't want to chill inside the restaurant or outside on the smoking patio. Check out the Sushi Fix website to get an idea of some of the great rolls they have and then try it out for yourself! Bring your snobby sushi friends and watch them enjoy the laid back sushi eating experience.

A&E Intervention

It's basically a show that takes about an hour to detail the life of someone addicted to something, inhalants, anorexia, and meth. They take accounts from their loved ones and what I liked is, the majority of the time they take accounts straight from the person addicted. In the end there is a suprise intervention. After watching one episode I might need an intervention to break away from this show. It's honest and really affected me. Some of these families are hopeless as the person addicted, they don't know what to do as they watch a loved one slowly die. I watched the episode with Allison, who was sucking on cans of electronic cleaner for almost the entire episode. It was insane to see someone so self destructive, but the girl had issues and when they were finally solved she began her road to recovery. Geez after all that, I needed a happy ending. Not sure if all of them turn out that way but check out part 1 of 5 from the episode with Allison. Maybe this is an addiction worth starting.

Ass Up in Snow: Getting Caught in a Vail Ski Lift

From The Smoking Gun Blog:
JANUARY 6--In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. As seen in the photos on the following pages (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair's botched boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair. In a statement released this afternoon, Vail Resorts, which operates the ski area, reported that the skier was not injured after being "suspended for approximately seven minutes." The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that "the man was caught on the chair."

Awesome Ad for Investing in Wind Energy-Epuron

Miracle Fruit

A dude in my office got this Miracle Fruit for Christmas. He said after eating the small berries you can eat sour foods and they actually taste sweet!! Check out the Wikipedia description below, I'll get his reaction for you if you don't try them out yourself!

The Miracle Fruit plant (Synsepalum dulcificum) produces berries that, when eaten, cause bitter and sour foods (such as lemons and limes) consumed later to taste sweet. The berry, also known as Miracle Berry, Magic Berry, Miraculous Berry or Flavour Berry was first documented by explorer Chevalier des Marchaiswho searched for many different fruits during a 1725 excursion to its native West Africa. Marchais noticed that local tribes picked the berry from shrubs and chewed it before meals. . It is an evergreen plant that produces small red berries, with flowers that are white and which are produced for many months of the year. The seeds are about the size of coffee beans.
When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, molecules binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing bitter and sour foods to taste sweet. While the exact cause for this change is unknown, one hypothesis is that the effect may be caused if miraculin works by distorting the shape of sweetness receptors "so that they become responsive to acids, instead of sugar and other sweet things". This effect lasts between thirty minutes and two hours.

On This Day in History: Many Things Occur

In 1838 Samuel Morse demonstrates his telegraph system for the first time in New Jersey
In 1912 New Mexico Joins the Union
In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt Dies
In 1973 Schoolhouse Rock Debuts
In 1993 Renowned jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie dies
In 1994 Nancy Kerrigan is attacked
In 1996 "The Blizzard of '96" Begins (If you lived on the East Coast during this time you know how killer this was!)
In 2001 George Bush officially becomes president of the U.S. after a bitterly contested election

Craiglist Missed Connection: Oh Snap!

SHARON---I CAUGHT YOU CHEATING..... - m4w (I know you read these ads Shar)

Reply to: pers-980815160@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-01-05, 6:50AM PST


I knew you and Brian were up to something at work and when I complained that your flirting was hurting me and a sign our marriage was in trouble you told me to "grow up" and that I was "over-reacting" and being "immature".

The little gifts and lunches he was giving you bothered me but you told me that "friends give one another gifts" and that he was just being "friendly".

When you started telling me that you couldn't take time off from work (all those floating holidays) because things were sooo hectic in the office...I grew more suspicious so rather than get upset again I hired an investigator to see what was really going on.

(Oh yeah---I now know all about the golf trip...the park picnic and afternoon movies and the playful notes you've been passing here on craigslist.

The info I got on your 3 visits to the hotel last month left me feeling like a bag of broken glass...but no matter---no matter...I'm ok now.)

I'm spending today changing the locks. Not exactly my idea of a "fun day" but...

You'll find all your things boxed and in the driveway when you get home this evening.

I'm keeping the house and furniture as well as the boat you've been bugging me to sell.

My lawyer will be contacting you with my divorce petition.

Too bad you can't just move in with Brian tonite---but somehow I doubt his WIFE would appreciate that.

Byeeeeee!

Mike Tyson Has Totally Lost Whatever He Had Left...