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Playa News and Notes for the week of August 29 – Sept 1, 2010:

September 1, 2010…Well, I had some big plans for some big posts today, but just like Recovery Summer ™, they fizzled the fuck out. My internet connection was down, probably sabotaged by those pinko Kos Kidz trying to keep me – America’s voice of reason, liberty, and a good time – from speaking truth to power. Nice try bitches, but it won’t work. Unfortunately, by the time my high-speed umbilical cord to the world was re-established, it was too late for me to do anything other than watch old nuclear weapons-testing videos on youTube. There’s a freudian projection or a jungian archetype in there somewhere, most likely within the blast radius of the Castle Romeo detonation. So I hope to have some stuff up before Thursday evening as we head into the long Labor Day weekend. Catch you on the other side, mrow.

Playa News and Notes for the week of August 22 – 27, 2010:

August 22, 2010…As you can probably tell by the dearth of recent posts and updates (though I did have a long post several days ago) things have been very busy for me over the past three weeks. Recently, my intent on finding a new employer has morphed inexplicably into a desire to start my own company. We’ll see how things progress in that regard. Anyway, things are finally back to normal and I have been working on some new posts while finishing up some older ones (the news cycle has just been incredible this week), so we have a lot to catch up on. Also, to compensate for my lack of blogging, I turned into a Twittering fool over the past several days, so check those out as well. Anyway, here’s to a new week. Hope you are looking forward to it as much as I am.

Playa News and Notes for the week of August 15, 2010:

August 18, 2010…Nancy Pelosi is now wanting to launch an investigation into who is funding the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque resistance. Of course she never considered a similar investigation into who the mosque’s $100,000,000.00 sugar daddy is, but Botox does tend to make your head soft. Look, I realize the jihad is global now, but even I don’t believe they killed and looted that many Christians or sold and pimped out that many kafir girls to raise that kind of cash. Maybe the answer is something far less sinister, like the administration determined that Islam is too big to fail and gave them some TARP money.

Playa News and Notes for the week of August 8, 2010:

August 14, 2010…Hola playas and playa-ettes, its the Playa giving you a shout out. Or something like that. Anyway, I spent most of the past week submitting resumes and applications, so hopefully I’ll get some nibbles. But in the Obamanemic Economy ™, hope is slowly slipping into the abyss of reality. Fortunately, unlike millions of Americans, I have a job. But unfortunately, like millions of Americans, it sucks because of the Obamanemic Economy ™. Employers are now taking complete advantage of the situation by becoming belligerent, antagonistic, and even more incompetent. In fact, they’re such ass clowns that they should comprise a significant part of Obama’s re-election vote – along with Jews, Blacks, students, homosexuals, communists, anarchists, pornographers, pedophiles, and jihadists – in 2012. As for me and the El Blogo loco, I’ve been working on a couple posts today and will be posting them over the next few days. So please bear with me as I get my blogging mojo back after these hectic two weeks. That is all. Playa out. This has been a Public Service Announcement by The Dialectical Playa. No liberals were hurt in the production of this announcement.

August 11, 2010…Hey mi hermanos y hermanas. Playa here. I’ve been MIA the past two several days as I’ve become more intent on finding new employment. Researching potential employers, submitting my honed and exceptionally crafted resume to various HR Departments, and replying to emails has taken up an inordinate amount of time. Time that could have been spent fulfilling my vast audience’s intellectual and emotional needs. In recognition of the fact that it’s all about me, I will return to the blogosphere tomorrow Sunday. Same playa time, same playa channel!

August 8, 2010…Playa here. It was a fantastically hectic week as my wife’s family got together for their 2nd annual family reunion. Part of the festivities was a trip to Universal Orlando in order to experience the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It was, in a word, magnificent. What wasn’t magnificent, however, was my lack of posting and stuff. I will make up for that beginning Monday. In the meantime, keep your wands out, your spells at the ready, and enjoy your weekend!

Playa News and Notes for the week of August 1, 2010:

August 5, 2010…An activist judge in California somehow interpreted from the U.S. Constitution that homosexuals have the “right” to marry and that the democratic principle of one-man-one-vote is – particularly if it conflicts with liberal activism – unconstitutional. I have no problem at all with homosexuals. I don’t hate homosexuals. I believe that they should not be discriminated against in the workplace, in the economy, and in society. But there are caveats to this as I do not support a pink clergy, neither do I support homosexual marriage and I do harbor animosity against those who advocate that such social and sexual deviancy are acceptable “alternative lifestyles.” When 52% of California’s citizens voted against recognizing and legalizing homosexual marriage, the will of the people should have been respected as this is emblematic of how a functioning democracy works. Yet in an instant, a black-robed oligarch has completely dismissed the votes of literally millions of Californians as inconsequential and has instead – by his actions – proclaimed that the tyranny-of-the-minority and judicial activism are the new law-of-the-land. This will only increase resentment of government, liberalism, and yes, homosexuals. Much like the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque in which New York City’s culturally acquiescent, intellectually vapid, and spiritually shallow ruling elite capitulated to the dictates of political correctness and allowed Muslims to plant the flag of conquest in downtown Manhattan, the judge’s rejection of the democratic process will have tremendous repercussions for not just homosexuals but democracy itself. For the left, the issue has never been about “equality” for homosexuals but rather the destruction of the traditional family as the fundamental unit of society and replacing it with the State. Homosexuals are simply pawns in achieving this end. And should the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque be built, the unintended consequences of such an Islamic victory will be the wholesale immigration of Muslims into New York, transforming the city into another Balkanized Paris in which violence and conflict will become the new norm. But the greatest irony is this: that the left’s favorite religion is violently hostile to the left’s favorite minority. What a tangled web they weave, when the Democrats lie and deceive…

Playa News and Notes for the week of July 25, 2010:

July 31, 2010…I stole the audio playlist idea from the Petros and Money Show and it turned out to be an epic fail. I loved the mp3 player that lurked in subtle transparency at the bottom of the page…except it effected my blog videos in unfortunate, unsubtle opacity everywhere else. We’ll give it another shot later on after I test out some different video plugins. In the meantime, I made a sidebar widget that seems to work pretty good. Again, if I feel this is working out, then it might be something that I’ll expand on in the coming days. In the meantime, enjoy the huge, ~~five~~ three song rotation I’ve got on it and we’ll go from there. Sweet !!!!

July 29, 2010…Hey suckas! I’m going to try out a “Music Playalist,” which you will see at the bottom of the page, and if all goes well (i.e. there are no plugin conflicts, etc.), then it might be something that I’ll expand on in the coming days. In the meantime, enjoy the huge, five song rotation I’ve got on it and we’ll go from there. Consider this my personal “stimulus” for you in this, month two, of the Summer of Recovery ™ !!!!

Playa News and Notes for the week of July 18, 2010:

July 22, 2010…Things may be coming to a denouement with my employer, so in lieu of posting stuff on my blog – though I haven’t been completely negligent in that regard either as I have several drafts that are in various stages of completion as I’ve been working on them as time allows – I’ve been working on my resume and cover letter instead. What is happening in American manufacturing is a tragedy, and I hope to expose it’s nefarious dark-side to the illuminating rays of truth, justice, and the American way. But since the American way is labor exploitation and abusive treatment of employees, I’m just going to force them to lay-me off so I too can enjoy never-ending unemployment benefits and canvasitize (Sarah Palin isn’t the only conservative who can make up words) voters for the 2012 Obama Campaign. I hear they pay their volunteers pretty well. Anyway, let me tell you, it’s not pretty dudes and dudettes, it’s not pretty.

Playa News and Notes for the week of July 11, 2010:

July 17, 2010…There’s been a lot of justified controversy over Obama’s projected anger regarding al-Qaeda’s “racism.” Since Obama has removed the religious element from Islamism, the only criticism he has left is to apply postmodernism’s shibboleth of racism at an organization, a culture, and a religion that has no idea what that means. For postmodernists, racism is the greatest sin that exists in the world. But for Islamists, it’s being a kafir, or non-muslim. And unfortunately, just because you’re a muslim doesn’t mean you’re their kind of muslim as Islamists necessarily consider EVERYONE to be the “other.” Sure, within the umma, things can and do become fractured along racial and ethnic lines (as Sudan’s jihad against black Muslims in Darfur, and The Taliban’s Arabic hierarchy’s oppression of non-Arabic Afghans has attested to), but this is generic stuff for an ossified religion that places those from the Hijaz on a racial and ethnic pinnacle because that is the area where Muhammad was born, lived, and is buried. But as history has proven, it becomes much more problematic when the interpretation of faith becomes the pretense for internecine conflict. Not only is Islam riven by the Sunni-Shia split, but Sunnis themselves are riven by the dichotomy between practicing their faith in accordance with Muhammadan austerity or being labeled takfir (i.e. an apostate) and killed. I’m just waiting to see if the NAACP, which quickly labeled the Tea Party movement “racist,” will do likewise with bin Laden and the boyz.

July 13, 2010…I was getting ready for bed when I learned about the hit al-Awlaki placed on the Everybody Draw Mohammad chick. Everything about this is surreal in a beam-me-up-Scotty-there’s-no-intelligent-life-on-this-planet way: law enforcement’s blasé reaction, the fact that al-Qaeda seems to enjoy intimidating women, the fact that our broken immigration policy has allowed Muslims into the country so that murdering her could even enter into the realm of possibility, that the left – usually such stalwart defenders of free speech and feminism – is silent, that something like this could even happen in the United States, that this event perfectly demonstrates the servile and terrifying state of dhimmitude, and that we have an administration that sees Tea Parties as a bigger threat to America than Islam. What al-Awlaki’s threat proves is that our freedoms are fragile and that if they are to be protected, it is now up to us as individuals to protect them as government – at all levels – is both unable and unwilling to do so.

July 12, 2010…I’m feeling much, much better. I’m not up to actually blogging, so I’m doing some stuff under the hood. I just updated my theme and had to reset the page templates. Some plugins also were updated, including my video gallery plugin. Speaking of which, I’m not too happy with the new appearance. They made a number of fantastic admin changes that make it easier to add video, etc., but I liked the old “look” more. I’m not sure if I’m going to keep it. We’ll see…

July 11, 2010…There’s no feeling like noticing a failure and then overcompensating for it. That’s what made the Democratic party great. They fail miserably at everything, then overcompensate for it by punishing us with even more legislation that will inevitably lead to more failure while claiming that this is what is needed to rectify the failures they had previously instigated. There’s a certain brilliance to that. Anyway, just consider this update as my overcompensating for three-months’ of news negligence. I’m actually going to use this section for stream-of-consciousness type stuff, news links I find interesting, ObamaCare ™ factoids, and personal blog updates. I’m going to call this “micro-blogging,” which I invented about the same time Al Gore invented the internet.

July 11, 2010… I still feel like someone just dropped the entire 2000+ page behemoth called ObamaCare ™ on my gut. But aside from my personal problems, I actually forgot how much fun this page was. I really need to update it more. But that’s kind of like the Feds saying, “Wow, look at all this oil. We should really clean this up while assisting BP in anyway to help cap that ruptured well.” It’s something that’s so obvious and makes so much sense, that of course I’ll/they’ll never do it.

Playa News and Notes for the week of April 24, 2010:

April 21, 2010…The plan is to continue experimenting with some satirical parodies. And in addition to my regular posts, I’m hoping to begin a longer “paper” type exposition that I will post in pdf format. The topic is tentatively scheduled to be about Islam, but I haven’t given it much thought beyond that. Also, I’ve made some design changes to the site by eliminating the multimedia utility that was originally located immediately before the primary content but that became an irritant as it loaded on post links, etc., and required the viewer to constantly scroll down to view the linked content. Again, this blog is under constant development and I’ll be experimenting with numerous format changes throughout the year that will on occasion misfire, but will in the end – hopefully – result in enhancing my hate and my incendiary “teabagger” rhetoric. Woohoo!

April 20, 2010… I must have caused a tear in the space-time continuum as my karma totally blows right now. For most of the afternoon, I’ve been engaged in a death-match with my computer. Stupid Dell. You’d think the 7-year old they enslaved in a remote Chinese village would put the damn thing together better. Especially since his family is dependent on the egg roll they pay him with. Dell won this round. But I will have my revenge.

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There’s a reason why American industry and manufacturing blows, it’s called collectivism. The manifestation of “Too big to fail” is nothing more than collusion between big government and big business to “collectivize” risk, “collectivize” employees, and “collectivize” profit, usually at the employees’ and taxpayers’ expense. The terrible irony in all this is that globalization – capitalism’s cause du jour – has become the left’s most successful tool for wealth redistribution and controlling the means of production as now everyone from a small town in Kansas to a hamlet in China to a city in Hungary can experience exploitation, oppression, coercion, corporate imperialism, and institutionalized incompetence and greed all – and this is the best part – subsidized with their tax dollars.

Yes, your company’s mistreatment of you and its obsessive pursuit of profit at the expense of its products, services, reputation, and quality is actually bankrolled and insured by your government. It’s as if the left has outsourced communism and socialism to private enterprise. So in regards to this brave new world, your employer’s assessment of your “failures” as an employee – never more important then during your yearly performance review – coupled with a punitive and coercive work environment and poor pay are vital tools in their arsenal to “control costs” while also controlling you. This is something you can be deservedly proud of because – in a metaphysical sense through the people you elect and their munificent use of your taxes – you’re responsible for it! And fortunately for you, times have changed as your poor work performance is no longer “rewarded” with a trip to a re-education camp, a couple years in the GULAG, or a bullet in the head; but rather a pink slip, a cardboard box with some of your stuff in it, and a police escort to your car. A demeaning and degrading experience? Sure, but at least you get to live another day so that you can go through the entire process again somewhere else. And if you loathe your job and its managers, you can just quit without fearing a visit from the state’s security apparatus as you’ll actually be doing the company a favor since your replacement will work for less, take more abuse, and will eventually die at his workstation so that a great and glorious capitalist-communist hybrid future can be achieved.

Employer of the Month: Transocean

Very few companies can say they place profits over people and really mean it. Fortunately for their shareholders and executives, Transocean is one of those companies. They even proved it by killing eleven of their own employees by ignoring standard safety and drilling procedures in order to cut costs and maximize profits! Awesome! From their deliberately poor safety and maintenance records to their promotion of incompetent suck asses into management to their Obamaesque love of “stifling” bureaucracy, Transocean has successfully proven that they are seizing market share as mankind’s greatest threat and the planet’s pre-eminent destroyer of aquatic ecosystems. Join me in giving Transocean a roaring round of applause for their selection as our “Employer of the Month!”

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The New York Times actually did some good reporting on this story about Transocean. In it, they revealed the results of a complete performance evaluation commissioned by Transocean from risk-management company Lloyd’s Register. Lloyd’s report was depressingly typical of America’s 21st century industrial and manufacturing base as they candidly and scathingly documented numerous safety, maintenance, and managerial issues:

A lack of hands-on experience for workers and managers has contributed to safety concerns at the company, and a stifling bureaucracy imposed by onshore management has led to widespread resentment among rig workers, the investigators found. Nearly 40 percent of workers interviewed on the four rigs said that past problems were typically investigated by company officials strictly to attribute blame. “It ticks me off when someone fails or has an incident; they focus on the paper rather than the process that was gone through,” said a worker from the Discoverer Clear Leader. Another worker on Transocean’s Marianas rig said that the safety manual seemed to be “written for the courtroom, not the oil field.”About 43 percent of workers on the four rigs expressed fears of reprisals for reporting problems, the documents said. About 54 percent of Deepwater Horizon workers cited these fears, while about 61 percent of workers on the Marianas did so. Some workers said the company was systematically deferring maintenance to save money. “This rig is getting $550,000 per day; unless it’s a sink that needs fixing it isn’t getting fixed,” said a worker from the Marianas about the maintenance concerns. “They won’t send the rig to the shipyard for major refurb that is required in certain areas.” The reports are likely to broaden the discussion of blame for the April 20 explosion, which killed 11 workers. BP, which was leasing the Deepwater Horizon from Transocean at the time of the explosion, has been under the harshest glare for its role, but the Justice Department has said that its criminal investigation of the disaster will look at the role of the many companies involved.

The problem is greed. If a person wants to strike it rich as a corporate CEO, then don’t go into heavy industrial construction, heavy industry, or heavy manufacturing. The margins are small and have always been. From the outset, Transocean attempted to maximize their profits by minimizing their use of Americans and American common sense. The Deepwater Horizon was built by Hyundai in South Korea because their labor is much cheaper than ours. And so is their quality as The Deepwater Horizon was remarkable for its numerous quality issues, including poor welds, poor structural integrity, and poor ballast. Then add to a poorly built rig Transocean’s “stifling bureaucracy”; their corporate ethos of entitlement, hubris, unaccountability, and irresponsibility; and their maintenance and personnel decisions based solely on avarice, and you have the perfect confluence of factors for a Deepwater Horizon type disaster.

This is what has happened to Toyota America, who recently announced their tenth major recall of the year. The problem isn’t their employees, the problem is their processes. Lean Manufacturing is a Japanese invention that is in reality a program designed to produce the lowest quality product a customer will accept and unwittingly purchase at the highest price through the brilliant perversion of the word “value.” This has become endemic throughout every level and profession of our society: we elected Barack Obama, we purchase Toyotas, we purchase BP gasoline, and we work for companies like Transocean because we unwittingly accept the worst product in the market at a premium price for ourselves, deceived by their brilliant packaging and marketing.

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Groovy! It’s the Summer of Recovery! Wild!

With the advent of 2010′s Summer of Recovery ™, our Dear Leader is pointing us to a robust recovery and beyond that, retaking our pre-eminent economic – and more importantly moral – place among the nations. Thanks Barry. So in keeping with this government mandated theme of summer economic lovin’, let’s track that recovery!

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Health Care Showdown: Obama vs. America:

Democrats celebrate the passage of Obamacare

Mark Steyn writes:

“Ask yourself this: If you impose a sudden 35 percent tax on something, are you likely to get as much of it? Go on, take a wild guess. On the day President Obama signed Obamacare into law, Verizon sent an e-mail to all its employees warning that the company’s costs “will increase in the short term.” And in the medium term? Well, U.S. corporations that are able to do so will get out of their prescription-drug plans and toss their retirees onto the Medicare pile.”

read more here

As Americans come to grips with the nauseating reality of ObamaCare ™, the more likely this legislative Hindenburg looks like its going to crash and burn in a conflagration as spectacular as its tragic namesake. I believe in kickin’ them when they’re down, so let’s pile on, bitches! Woohoo!!!

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Black Panther Party movie review:

A man known as “Poll Thug” – played by somber, urban-combat-utilities-wearing method actor King Samir Shabazz – throws down the gauntlet to his audience, stating that it’s his desire to beat up some crackers. Glaring contemptuously at the crowd, he quickly affects an Oprah Winfrey impersonation as the camera pans the auditorium just prior to his leaving the stage, fist raised, to shouts of “Black Power!” Just at that moment, Jack Nicholson’s Robert Byrd character appears with a group of Klansmen and zombies. As the earth’s mantle begins to shift due to the rapid heating of its core from neutrinos emanating from a massive solar flare, a Matrix-style shootout ensues culminating with Byrd being killed by the ring-bearer before the scene comes to a close with Poll Thug being beamed back aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. While that particular segment crackled with raw, visceral intensity, such riveting moments were sadly few-and-far-between throughout much of Louis Farrakhan’s new blaxploitation film, New Black Panther Party starring Malik Zulu Shabazz.

Initially, I found the movie mildly satisfying despite its subtle feminine nuances becoming overwhelmed by the more extreme flavors of hyper-masculine bravado and machismo. It was sort of like a Guy Ritchie movie, but better. However, as the film unfolded, I discovered to my unexpected delight that what began as an action/survival horror/psychological thriller/drama was actually a comedy, propelled by its subversive, yet deliciously wicked, critique of black national socialism. Farrakhan’s decision to use ebonics over English, his choice of outlandish costumes, his deliberately campy sets and props, his eccentrically outre screenplay, and his deft hand at coaxing every bit of humorous pathos from his limited cast was sheer genius and made the film light, breezy, and unpretentious. Despite Shabazz’s and Poll Thug’s somewhat formulaic acting, their passion and comedic timing transformed them into formidably developed characters, rivaling anything created by Woody Allen. This is definitely a sleeper hit for best comedy film of 2010.

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Latest News – 13 July 2010:

Edward R. Murrow reporting live from the Playa Cave.

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