This week is a group I discovered thanks to the greatness that is Dave Chappelle’s Block Party DVD. It in itself is a great movie/concert but this group stuck out the most to me. 1, cuz I had never heard of them. 2, I love their flow. 3, I’ve had a recent affinity to militant, black consciousness in my Hip-Hop. Enough talk. This song isn’t great message wise, but I LOVE the flow in it. The song is Hell Yeah(Bonus Track 2) by Dead Prez off their CD Revolutionary But Gangsta.

The cloud of suspicion hovering over Barry Bonds has darkened considerably.

Bonds, baseball’s home run king, faces prison time after being indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice that stem from his denials under oath that he used anabolic steroids and that his personal trainer injected him with performance-enhancing drugs.

The indictment alleges that Bonds lied to a federal grand jury 19 times. He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Dec. 7.

The indictment was unsealed Thursday, more than five years after a federal agent started digging through trash outside the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) near San Francisco and collected evidence that would lead to the biggest steroids scandal in the history of sport and, ultimately, lead to the charges against Bonds. The indictment includes a reference to Bonds testing positive for steroids in November 2000 – and that could prove to be the most controversial piece of the government’s impending case against the controversial slugger.

Major League Baseball did not begin drug testing until 2003, meaning the results of the drug test referenced in the indictment probably were seized during the government’s raid of BALCO, which happened to be that same year.

Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO who served four months in prison after pleading guilty to steroid-related charges, said the drug test likely took place when Bonds joined an assortment of world-class athletes working with Conte. But Conte said the case against Bonds could crumble if the positive drug test is the government’s “smoking gun.”

Conte said the protocol used to assure the integrity of a drug test – typically known as the chain of custody because it tracks the sample of urine or blood from the point of collection to the lab where it’s tested – was not in place. Second, Conte pointed out that the indictment does not say what the positive drug test showed. But if a high level of testosterone was detected, according to Conte, the positive test could have resulted from a contaminated nutritional supplement or pro-hormones that were sold legally until 2005.

It also is possible the positive drug test belongs to Bonds and could have resulted from Bonds’ taking anabolic steroids, according to Conte.

“But is it beyond a reasonable doubt? I don’t think it is,” Conte said. “That’s why I didn’t think they would bring the indictment. But they did, so now it’s war.”
…Read the entire article at yahoo.com

…Courtesy of Paul Mooney.

White man walking on the beach, finds a magic lamp, rubs it, a genie pops out.
“Look, I’ve been in there 300 years. I don’t wanna hear any talk. You got 3 wishes, just think it, it’ll happen.”
Poof…Big Mansion
Poof…Naked women running all over the mansion
Poof…Knock on the door. Three Ku Klux Klan dressed in robes takes the man out and lynch him.
Next day, the genie’s at Starbucks, talking…that’s where they all go for coffee.
“Told you. I was gone for 300 years, nothing’s changed.”
“They all want mansions.”
“They all still want naked women.”
“But the last wish was confusing.”
“Why would he wanna be hung like a nigga?”

Black woman walking on the beach, finds a magic lamp, rubs it, a genie pops out.
“You’ve got two wishes.”
Two? What happened to three?”
“You’re a nigga, you only get two.  What’s your first wish?”
“I want you to build a bridge from Los Angeles to Africa, so when white folks get on niggas nerves we can walk home.”
He said, “Ma’am, I’m a genie, I’m not God. What is your second wish?”
“My second wish is I want you make white people and black people have equal rights in America.”
“…How do you want that bridge? Out of cement or wood.”

A white woman’s baking a chocolate cake. She turns away for a moment
Her son reaches up and puts chocolate all over his face.
“Look mom, I’m black!”
The mom turns around and slaps the shit out of him.
“Now go show your father what you just did.”
The boy goes upstairs and says, “Look dad, I’m black.”
The father pulls off his belt and beats the hell out of that boy.
“Now go tell your grandfather what you just did.”
The boy goes outside and says, “Look grandpa, I’m black.”
The grandfather pulls a switch off a tree and whoops his ass.
“Now go back to your mother.”
The boy goes back to the kitchen and the mother says, “Now what did you learn?”
The boy says, “I’ve been black for all of 5 minutes and I already hate all you white motherfuckers!”

Dexter is getting better and better. I originally disliked the love triangle but it’s getting pretty damn good. I hope Doakes isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Love the dynamic between him and Dexter and it got ramped up Sunday to the nth degree. Good stuff.

Weeds is pretty much a parody of it’s self at this point. Do like the story of the youngest now “seeing” and “talking” to his dead dad. Poor little bastard.

I finally saw the “Booze Cruise” episode of The Office, and didn’t realize how big that episode was. I LOVED it when Jim broke it off with his lady friend. It was so cringe-worthy.

House was awesome as per usual. I knew that Michael Michelle was gonna get fired but didn’t expect it so quickly. Finally get some insight into “number 13″ next week. I totally dig her by the way. Surprised Kumar’s lasted as long as he has as well as the “bitch”.

Chuck gets an automatic win once again this week as he had an Oldboy poster in his room. He may have had it in there in past episodes but I never noticed it. Decent episode as well.

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I missed Saturday so today is “when I feel like it”. I couldn’t find the cord for my media player so I had no access to music and my good laptop is still MIA, thus no MP3 Saturday. Found the cord today, so since I’m a lazy fuck and did nothing today I will post an mp3. Today’s song is from one of the many Marley offspring. I have always been a fan of Bob, Ziggy, and Damian Marley, but until recently had never heard of Ky-Mani Marley. I must say, he’s up there with the others, maybe even better. Ziggy’s always been my fav but he’s never had a cd where I’ve liked every song. Ky-Mani’s latest is just that. I’ve listened to it more than any other CD this year, except for maybe Kanye’s latest but it’s gaining. So without further ado I give you off his latest CD “Radio”…

Based on a true story…or so I’ve heard. It’s basically Dangerous Minds on a low budget. My main complaint is the story seemed very rushed. One minute the students are defiant, the very next they’re all agreeing to come in early, leave late, and work Saturdays. My second complaint is minor, but Edward James Olmos’ comb over was very distracting early on…very. I got over it and in the end enjoyed the experience. It’s amazing how many of them passed the Advanced Placement Calculus Exam. Great story of overcoming a system that’s against you.

I looked up the teacher(Jaime Escalante) the story is based upon on wiki and it had a great quote. “Determination + Discipline + Hard Work = Way to Success”. Simple but true.

“War is hell, but peace is fucking boring.” That should have been the tagline of the movie. A look at a few morally questionable soldiers during the time shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Joaquin Phoenix is good as usual playing the drug dealing, thieving, lying soldier who’s out to make a buck anyway he can…even black market mop&glo. He gets in over his head when he steals two trucks full of weapons and plans to sell them. All the while a new “Top”, Sergeant Lee, a very convincing Scott Glenn, is trying to ruin all of Joaquin’s fun, including diddling the Sergeant’s daughter. A very good movie, much better than anticipated. Definitely worth a rental, not sure about a buy. Also, Anna Paquin wasn’t completely offensive in her role which is saying alot…she sucks.

Now that’s what I’m talking about! Easily the best Heroes episode to this point. The revelation in at the end was glorious. Here you’re thinking Hiro’s storyline is just filler. Keep Hiro in the show. Little light-heartedness, then it all comes together and his storyline is the most important to this point. Adam having Peter on his side is quite the badass team. Sylar seems pretty insignificant at this point, but I’m sure things will come together. Greeeat episode.

Side note: Word is they’ve canceled the Heroes spin-off due to the writer strike…it makes me very sad as they had alot of good directors/writer’s lined up for it. I was really looking forward to Kevin Smith’s episode.

Well, Wes Anderson is 3 for 3 so far for me. It took about 30 minutes for the movie to really get going but when it got goin’ it was pure fun. Bill Murray has got to be the most under-rated actor of our time. He’s so good in all his roles. He was very understated in this movie, yet stood out from everyone. Jason Schwartzman was also very good. Out of the 3 movies of Anderson’s that I’ve seen I liked the story of this one the most. Played out well, and it amazed me how well it all came together and was only an hour and a half long. Loved the ending also. I still like Life Aquatic better overall. Just loved the quirkiness of it…and Bill Murray. Though I’d place this above Bottle Rocket. Check it out if you haven’t already.