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Just the latest insult to Native American traditions by parents without the guts to get their kids real tattoos
No, its not the old 19th century smallpox-impregnated-blanket trick. And its not the literally countless number of broken treaties and promises. And its not even close to the lets-give-them-the-worst-land-everywhere policy thats created reservations on some of the most hostile terrain in the United States.
What Im talking about is the horrific rise of the artless application of paint to the face of every kid in America, at every event held from sea to shining sea. Whether its at a community picnic, a traveling carnival with cool, superdangerous, never-safety-inspected rides or food booths, grandma and grandpas long-anticipated murder/suicide memorial service, or an ongoing four-alarm fire raging through your neighbors house, youll almost always find an individual seated at a folding table with a folding chair for clients (I assume for quite-getaway purposes) with pots full of pasty color, a hand-lettered sign taped to the side of the table reading Face Painting for Kids!!!!!! And a suggested donation that, if more than zero, is vastly overpriced.
Im not sure what it is about face painting that irks me so. Not that it irks me more than just about everything else, but youd think that Id at least let this one little thing go. Its harmless. Its ubiquitous. Youre never going to be able to stop it. So just forget about it and concentrate on the great issues of the day.
Then I thought, Nah, forget it. Im going after these kids faces like an eagle hungry for chin meat.
The first, and most essential truth about face painting, is thats its an activity jammed down kids throats (or in this case, smushed into their faces like a malicious clowns cream pie) by their parents so they can have some quality time in the beer tent at public recreational gatherings, to whit:
Dad, Im bored. Theres nothing to do here. I wanna go. Its hot. Im tired. The food smells funny and the rides are all squeaky and shaky [boy, does this kid know his traveling carny business], says the five-year-old boy to his father, whos not hearing a word of it as he cravenly staring into the invigorating deeply shadowed interior of the brew tent with its libatious temptations of unlimited shivery cans of lite beer and the possibility of small talk with a cool quart of hometown MILK (Mom Id Like to Know, if you know what I mean).
The kid pulls down hard on the edge of his old mans T-shirt, which he has tucked into his jeans for maximum visual effect. He looks down hard at his son from under the brim of the ubiquitous baseball cap, so angry he could throw a handful of dirt at the boy. Then, snapping briefly back to reality, smiles at his son, who has amazingly already mastered driving the family ATV at full bore. He scans the booths, the whirring devices of almost-certain mechanical death or dismemberment (the one thing his wife would never forgive him for), and spots the perfect alternative.
He hands the kid a five and and says, Whyont you get your face painted with all them other kids?
The boy looks at the line, the kids all around him who have butterflies and flowers and fully licensed, trademarked animation charactersin clear violation of any interpretation of fair useever attempted as a defended in any U.S. court of lawdrawn on their faces. The kid knows its this or three poison dogs that will leave him bloated and hallucinating in the noonday son, so he agrees.
All right, Dad, he says, taking the sweaty half-sawbuck.
All right, dude! Dad replies, high-fiveing his son, even as his feet are already moving of their own volition toward the semidark anonymity of the beer big top.
Oh, Dad.
Oh, Evil.
Oh, boy.
And thus this five-year-old becomes both victim and victimizer. How, you ask? if youve managed to read this far.
The scourge of face painting has reduced a generation of children to nameless, faceless generic canvases by parents who dont have the guts to get their kids real tattoos. This is symptomatic of this Age, where candy cigarettes are looked down upon, if you can even find them. (I always had a pack of candy cigarettes on me, from the time I was allowed to play outside on my own. And I grew up to absolutely despise the real thing.) Semi-realistic looking toy guns (like the Davy Crockett rifle my best friend, Brian Beckmeyer, received on his eighth birthday. Real wooden stock. Real black metal barrel. Unfortunately, when we were in the swamps playing Alamo on the very day he got the long gun, he made the mistake of turning his back on me, at which point I did what any of the defenders of the legendary Texas mission would have done to one of Santa Annas soldiers: I clocked him over the head with the gunstock, snapping it in two and knocking him unconscious just long enough to take off for home and deny I had anything to do with the guns stunning and sudden demise.)
And if you wanted some colorreal color, permanent coloradded to your life, you paid someones big brother with the change youd stolen over the years from your fathers dresser top to take you down the shore and get one.
This was before ruby lasers and advertisements for easy laser removal techniques. You knew the price youd pay, and continue paying, for the enormous eternal mistake youd made. But during those times, there was nothing as temporary, nor as lame, as face painting. The rub-on tattoos you could by then lasted longer than the current crop; Im sure they had a lead-and-mercury base, but they looked great and it took them weeks to wash off.
Admittedly, most of us went that route, including me.
But to those kids who went whole hog, and returned from the beach with the smell of salt in their hair, a bandage on their arms, and the full knowledge that theyd be punished for years in ways the rest of us could only imagine, I salute you here.
And so kids nowadays settle for the bland, fleeting, cookie-cutter (not literally), facial equivalents of the cheapest car paint job. They wash off with spit, or drizzle in a gentle breeze, with a single flash of a digital camera, or simply with the thought that they should be gone now.
Particularly when looked at in the light of the original purpose of face painting.
This, from a column, Grandmothers Speak in the Manataka American Indian Council:
Face paint, or medicine paint . . . was a visual indication of . . . individual personal power as well as tribal affiliation. Materials used were roots, berries, tree bark, and colored clay.
Each tribal nation had its own designs, and individuals respected those guidelines . . . often the individual design could be a portrayal of a spirit message, a vision, and have spiritual significance to the individual that was unknown to others.
Red was the color of war . . . yellow was the accepted color of death or deadly encounters. [These paintings] were calculated to strike terror. Some warriors entered battle naked except for a loin cloth, but with their bodies streaked in bizarre examples in red and black paint. . . . Yellow paint meant that a man had lived his life and will fight to the absolute end.
Now thats face painting.
No Miss Piggy as a princess on the cheek.
No Shrek on the forehead.
No full-face Hello Kittys.
When I asked a Native American if he thought the current wave of face painting was an even bigger insult than Mount Rushmore, he said . . . No.
When I said to him, Look, it would really help my story if you could just way yes to that question just this one time, and I wont even use your name, just the fact that youre a Native American.
He thought about it for a moment, then shrugged and said, Yes.
So, there you have it, from a bona fide original son of this land. Face painting is even more insulting to native tribes than the huge presidential faces carved to watch over Native Americans and the land to which theyve been relegated.
So I make this simple request: Resist the sirens call of the face painter when next it comes, and no matter how cheap it is. Instead, tell your children of the great warriors who marked their faces before they left their villages to protect their people and the land they cherished.
Tell them what a real tattoo is, the commitment it requires, how theyre not old enough to get one (a fascinating challenge if I ever heard one), and how expensive and painful they can be.
And if they remain unconvinced, if they remain hard-hearted despite the wealth of cultural knowledge theyve just received, then tell them theyre going to look really stupid with Sponge Bob dripping off of their tiny little faces when it starts to rain, which it looks like its going to in about, um, five minutes.


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Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Total Flanker Awards 2009
Forget the farce that was BBC Sports Personality of the Year (Ryan Giggs? My arse!) and welcome instead to the 3rd annual Total Flanker Awards ceremony.
Yes, another year has passed since we handed out our last set of prestigious trinkets, a year in which has been very good for the likes of South Africa and Ireland but which has seen the game as a whole tainted by drugs scandals, fake blood, eye-gouging and an inordinate amount of aimless kicking.
First up in 2009 is the Total Flanker How Not to Run Your Sport Award. Only one candidate for this particular gong of course - yes, our perennial favourite the International Rugby Board. In the last 12 months the IRB has attempted and failed to railroad the world of rugby into accepting a new set of fiendish experimental laws which the majority obviously didn't want and, when faced with defeat, rather than withdraw gracefully chose to push through various of the so-called less controversial changes to create a compromised mish-mash and then compounded their incompetence by introducing a new interpretation at the breakdown (with no consultation that I am aware of) which massively favoured the defence and stifled attacking rugby. And don't get me started on the IRB's failure to tackle eye-gouging...
Moving swiftly along, it's time for the Total Flanker Tarnished Halo Award. This award is for the team or individual whose previously impeccable reputation has taken something of a kicking over the last 12 months. There are a few candidates - our favourite son of orange, Mr Gavin Church, for instance, has seen his star wane to the extent that it is now unclear whether he has a future in the game at all. And, despite a French renaissance of sorts, perhaps it is finally dawning on the world of rugby at large that SuperJonny's powers to influence the outcome of an international rugby match are not nearly as persuasive as they once were. Matt Stevens' reputation also went down the pan in 2009 alongside several Bath colleagues and Dean Richards managed to achieve pariah-status over Bloodgate. However, and it pains me to say this, this award must go to England manager Martin Johnson. An iconic player and captain, Johnno's tenure as manager has so far been riddled with conservatism, indecision and an uncharacteristic reluctance to be ruthless. I desperately hope that he proves his critics wrong and this award proves to be entirely unjustified but, until then, I'm afraid he's stuck with it.
Next up is the Total Flanker How to Make a Bad Situation Worse Award. The aforementioned Dean Richards (not to mention various other parties at Quins who somehow got away with it) comes very close to securing this one for his role in Bloodgate but he is pipped at the post by none other than "the Plank" aka Justin Harrison. Faced with a situation in which a club team mate, Matt Stevens, had tested positive for and received a 2 year ban for taking cocaine and with his club under fierce scrutiny, the Plank decided that it would be a fabulous idea to go on a bender at the end of season party, declaring that "Class A is OK" before being observed partaking of the said narcotic before getting in a fight with a Quins player outside a Fulham pub. The subsequent fallout involving the resignation and banning of 3 other Bath senior players is something that the club is still struggling to recover from. Well done Mr Harrison.
At this point it is obvious that, having just missed out in the last two categories, if there's any justice in this world then Dean Richards simply must win a coveted TF Award in 2009. By popular demand, therefore, I am delighted to announce that Deano is to receive the Total Flanker Scapegoat of the Year Award. It takes some doing to conclude that a conspiracy involving at least one player, the coaching staff, the medical staff and the executive committee of a rugby club was all the fault of one man and one man only - but that is exactly the conclusion that ERC reached, conveniently brushing its own manifest failings under the committee room carpet.
Turning now to the penultimate award tonight, the Total Flanker Coco the Clown Comedy Award. Harlequins' Tom Williams was for a while the front runner for this one after his ludicrously obvious attempt to convince match officials that he'd cut his mouth by spewing litres of ketchup whilst staggering around as if he'd been darted by a tranquiliser gun. Comedy genius. However, the performances of Peter de Villiers during the Lions tour this year were on another level. His defence of Schalk Burger's attempts to remove Luke Fitzgerald's eyeball were particularly worthy of nomination and the line "we might as well go to a ballet shop and all get tutus and get a great dancing show on for all to see that has no eye-gouging, no tackling, no nothing and we can all in enjoy it" is almost Pythonesque in its comic brilliance.
And finally - and on an upbeat note - we reach the Total Flanker Punch & Judy That's the Way to Do It Award. In this age of risk-averse conservatism and of endless squad sessions and over-coaching, one man was able to bring together 35 players from Britain and Ireland and, in next to no time, knit them into a cohesive unit playing effective and attractive rugby. That man is, of course, Ian McGeechan. Yes, the series was lost but only just and, in restoring credibility to the Lions concept, a concept that many were beginning to question, Geech has done the game a big favour. Shame it cost him his job at Wasps ultimately but I doubt he'll be short of offers.
And so, in summary:
Total Flanker How Not to Run Your Sport Award - IRB
Total Flanker Tarnished Halo Award - Martin Johnson
Total Flanker How to Make a Bad Situation Worse Award - Justin "Plank" Harrison
Total Flanker Scapegoat of the Year Award - Dean Richards
Total Flanker Coco the Clown Comedy Award - Peter de Villiers
Total Flanker Punch & Judy That's the Way to Do It Award - Ian McGeechan.
Merry Christmas...
Monday, 21 December 2009
What's it all about, Alfie?
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Varsity Match refreshes the parts...
Cambridge's victory over Oxford may not mean much to the neutral but nobody could fail to be impressed with the passion and commitment of both sides as well as, particularly in the case of the Light Blues, an admirable intent to attack space at every opportunity.
The fact that I was also involved in an excellent pre-match lunch courtesy of my old college, St. John's, and bore witness to the launch of the Paul Beard Sports Fund in memory of my old college mate who sadly passed away earlier this year aged just 43, made it a very special day.
That said, it did take me the best part of 2½ hours to find my way home and my liver still isn't speaking to me.
Friday, 11 December 2009
A Woman's Touch
What is unusual is that the cash-strapped club took the somewhat unique decision in mid-October to appoint a woman, former conditioning coach Elaine Vassie, as head coach.
I'd like to say that results have improved and, to the extent that there have been no further 100 point thrashings administered (although Otley, Cinderford, London Scottish, Stourbridge and Tynedale have all come within 1 try of doing so) they have. No victories as yet (or even close) but the scorelines are coming down with "only" an average of 85 points conceded in their last 7 games (it may not sound like much of an improvement but the average for the previous 7 games was 105 points, so an improvement of 20 points per game is a fairly dramatic result).
The circumstances in which Vassie is expected to work are a little challenging to say the least, only 4 of last season's squad having been retained in the wake of severe budget cuts following last season's relegation. So, almost certainly dead certs for another relegation but the players appear to be behind her and you have to admire her guts in even taking on the role.
Well done Elaine - and good luck for the rest of the season.
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Spirit of '73
On the former point I'd have to agree - the BaaBaas (and the All Blacks to be fair) showed that the current laws do not in fact require that the leather be booted off the ball at very opportunity.
On the latter point, however, I have to say that a bunch of Aussies and Saffas (with the occasional European guest) beating a second-string New Zealand XV has (at least for me) very little significance at all.
I've expressed a view on the Barbarians' place in the modern game previously and, although yesterday's match was fun to watch, I can't say I was hugely bothered about who would win given the lack of northern hemisphere involvement.
If these end of tour matches are to mean anything then agreement has to be reached to include the top players from the home nations. A victory for a British & Irish based BaaBaas team over the All Blacks would mean something to me that yesterday's win just didn't.
Just for the hell of it, and based on who is fit to play at the moment, here's a BaaBaas line up I'd relish watching:
15. Rob Kearney 14. Tommy Bowe 13. Brian O'Driscoll 12. Jamie Roberts 11. Maxime Medard 10. Danny Cipriani 9. Chris Cusiter 1. Gethin Jenkins 2. Dylan Hartley 3. Martin Castrogiovanni 4. Nathan Hines 5. Courtney Lawes 6. Stephen Ferris 7. Martyn Williams 8. Imanol Harinordoquy
Of course, it would never happen...
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Coventry cling on
And it could have been much worse for Coventry, the Inland Revenue having served a winding up order on the club through the High Court over a whopping outstanding debt of nearly £500k. Owner Andrew Green had ordered the club to close and cease trading but defiant club officials successfully challenged the decision on a legal technicality with the result that the club is now in administration and has a matter of weeks to attract new investment to save its bacon.
Not what the RFU and Premier Rugby envisaged, I'm sure, when the Championship was launched with great fanfare in August but possibly an apt demonstration of the folly of trying to launch a fully professional second tier league, especially in the depths of a recession.
Thursday, 3 December 2009
You went out in your thousands in 2007 and bought the horrendous ketchup swish kit and now, according to the RFU, sales of England's new purple kit have outstripped all previous records.
41% of replica shirts sold during the autumn internationals were purple and, on the day of the abysmal showing against Argentina, nearly 70% of all shirt sales at Twickenham involved the purple kit.
"It's an all-time record," burbles CEO Francis Baron, and why shouldn't he - the gullible masses have once again fallen for the most blatently obvious marketing bollocks.
PLEASE STOP BUYING THIS KIT - all it does is encourage greed and avarice and yet more horrendous abominations masquerading as England rugby kit. Even if the team is hopeless, the national team's shirt must mean something, surely?
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
And another thing...
Monday, 30 November 2009
All in the mind
It seems that far too much kicking, not enough tries, no entertainment and no excitement are just a few of the game's current ills, together with an "unsustainable" casualty rate.
Much attention has been focussed on the breakdown, with the latest refereeing 'interpretation' - which allows the tackler to play the ball with his hands from whatever position as long as he is back on his feet - favouring, it is claimed, defence at the expense of attack.
This, according to the perceived wisdom, causes more ball to be kicked, as teams are fearful of being caught in possession and either turning ball over or conceding kickable penalties.
I do have some sympathy with this viewpoint, but it strikes me that the solution that many in the game are calling for, namely yet more interferenece in the laws, should really be a last resort.
No, as far as I can see the responsibility for change must lie with the players and the coaches. Call me naive, but I would have thought that, by spending more time as a team on attacking space rather than seeking contact, on offloading to supporting players rather than dying in possession and on making the ball available in the tackle rather than holding on, the chances of conceding possession or a penalty would be vastly reduced. The consequence should be that teams confident in their contact skills would be more inclined to attack. Furthermore, by coaching players not to seek contact as a first resort the number of breakdowns will be reduced and, by logical extension, so will the number of injuries.
It's a simplistic view, granted, but if teams put less emphasis on time spent in the gym and on defensive drills and more emphasis on time spent on attacking and contact skills, not only would it produce more imaginative and exciting rugby, it also has to be more effective than the aimless hoof downfield which hands the ball back to the opposition.
Fanciful? It doesn't have to be. You only have to look at the Lions in South Africa this summer and both New Zealand and Australia this past weekend for evidence that a more enlightened approach can work.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
The Total Flanker Guide to: Refereeing
- Shifting goalposts: is it just me or do the IRB appear to be making up the laws as they go along? It seems that every time there's a poor game of rugby we're confronted with calls for law changes, resulting in experimental laws, new directives and varying edicts on the scrum, the lineout, the breakdown, the colour of players' bootlaces etc. And if international refs are struggling to cope what chance has the poor sod refereeing the 5th XV at Old Gitonians?
- R.E.S.P.E.C.T: what the hell happened to the day of calling the referee "sir" and accepting decisions with good grace (albeit through gritted teeth)? The level of backchat, dissent and overall whingeing these days, even at grassroots level, has reached epidemic proportions. I've no idea how or why referees put up with it.
- The Awkward Pint: 'twas ever thus, but I've never been able to work out why referees hang about rugby clubhouses after the game on Saturday in the forlorn hope that someone will not only buy them a pint but will want to stick around for more than 30 seconds to discuss the finer points of some of the afternoon's decisions. The home captain feels obliged to make an effort, but it can't be enjoyable for the ref knowing that his companion in conversation would rather be anywhere else, can it?
So, a bunch of reasons why I could not be a referee - but since when has a distinct lack of direct and relevant experience ever prevented me from proffering advice?
Here, therefore, are my top tips for rugby refereeing survival in grassroots rugby:
- Consistency - realistically it barely matters what laws you apply, as long as the laws you do apply are applied fairly and consistently. Rugby players have simple needs - as long as they don't feel cheated they're fine;
- Confidence - Be assertive. If in doubt, guess - but make sure you guess with conviction;
- Take no crap - you've given up your afternoon to supervise 30 fat blokes rolling about in the mud fighting. You don't need to take any aggro. Keep marching the gobshites back 10 metres, all the way to the tryline if necessary;
- Empathy - the vast majority of the players are trying their best. Laws are often broken not through cheating, but because the players are too knackered, old, fat or just not very good. If you can understand what they're trying to achieve and referee accordingly there's a chance that both you and the players might actually enjoy the game.
And who knows, someone might actually want to buy you a pint in the clubhouse.
Hope that helps :)
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Flatman for England!
Not only is he, in this blog's humble opinion, the best loosehead prop currently available to England, he is also the complete anecdote to the usual anodyne, cliché-ridden, ghost-written player columns regularly to be found in the national newspapers.
No platitudes, no banalities and no spin, Flatman's articles in The Independent are witty, insightful and bordering on Clarkson-esque.
Here are a couple of recent examples:
Having a baby beats facing the All Blacks
Scrumthings not right
Flatman for England!
Monday, 23 November 2009
November: the Verdict
In an ideal world Martin Johnson would have wanted to build on the undoubted momentum created during the 6 Nations. With so many frontline players crocked, however, it was somewhat inevitable that any such momentum would stall. I know other countries have had injuries but if you consider that, from last season's England squad Andrew Sheridan, Lee Mears, Phil Vickery, Simon Shaw (until the NZ match), Joe Worsley (ditto), Nick Easter, Tom Rees, Harry Ellis, Toby Flood, Riki Flutey, Mike Tindall and Delon Armitage might all have expected to feature in the match day 22, it was always unlikey that England would make huge progress this Autumn.
That said, this campaign has been disappointing for a number of reasons:
- SELECTION - the fact that so many so-called established players were missing should have been a ready-made excuse for England to focus one eye on the World Cup and check out some up and coming talent. All Courtney Lawes did, however, was to get splinters in his arse whilst the "livid" Ben Foden and the perennially ignored Matthew Tait also saw little or no action. And where Johnson did choose to experiment, he got it badly wrong. It was obvious against Australia that Ugo Monye was no fullback (and personally I'm not that convinced about him as a winger) and that Matt Bahahan simply didn't have the skillset to play international rugby, for instance.
- COACHING - much has been said about the coaching set up, especially in relation to forwards coach John Wells. To be fair, England's set piece work has been up to scratch but our lack of nous at the breakdown is glaringly obvious and our inability to drive a maul - once our signature move - is just scary.
- TACTICS - it hasn't been at all obvious what the team has been trying to achieve. Playing a 2nd ⅝ in Shane Geraghty should have released England's strike runners but all we appeared to do was line up way behind the gain line and move the ball laterally. And then, against New Zealand, we pick an inside centre who can't pass? Clearly something is amiss. If Martin Johnson is team manager, who has the lead responsibility for coaching the team as a whole and setting the tactics? Wells? Brian Smith?
- CAPTAINCY - throughout the last 12 months I've staunchly defended Steve Borthwick and have thought that the criticism he has received from lazy journos has been excessive and largely unfair. Too often, I feel, he's carried the burden of the donkey work while played alongside more lightweight contributors such as Nick Kennedy and Louis Deacon. Packing down next to Simon Shaw, however, appears to have the effect of releasing him to be the influential player we often see in the Premiership - witness his performances against France, Scotland and New Zealand this year. That said, I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that, despite him being an all round honest, loyal and decent bloke (and a bloody good lock), the captaincy is beginning to weigh around his neck like a millstone and his reign is becoming too associated with failure. If I'm honest there isn't an obvious alternative candidate for the captaincy but perhaps now is nevertheless the time for a fresh approach and to let Borthwick just prove himself as a player.
All in all, although hampered by a ridiculous injury list, England's tendency to seek a short term fix is what has let the Johnson regime down this autumn. Had the short term solutions resulted in 2 or 3 victories, then they might have been justified, but where the quick fix has been an obvious failure then we have every right to wonder why the opportunity wasn't taken to assess the calibre of some of the talent coming through. Although it was nice to see Jonny back, the fact is that he created very little and the fly-half in form, Shane Geraghty, was marginalised at 12. Surely it would have worth a try (no pun intended) giving him a run at 10 and picking players like Tait and Foden and Wasps' Joe Simpson to have a go. And when you unearth a tyro like Courtney Lawes, what better way to find out if he's got what it takes than to let him loose on the Aussies and the Kiwis?
There are only 2 years until the World Cup. Next November will be too late to find out if these guys have what it takes. A chance has, I feel, been missed.
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Well done England
Catherine Spencer's England team beat New Zealand 10-3 at Twickenham on Saturday, thus drawing the two-match series.
England's first win over the Black Ferns since 2001 sets things up very nicely for the 2010 women's World Cup to be held in England.
Something, finally, to smile about.
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Growing Pains
Crossbar challenge
Stuart Tinner hit the bar with a punt from 30 metres - wearing only his socks - as part of a competition held at half-time during Sarries' victory over South Africa this week. He was the first of three three supporters picked at random from the 46,000 crowd.
The pick of his comments afterwards was:
"This is the second best day of my life - the best was when I lost my virginity."
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
The SARU are up in arms about the fact that South Africa's national anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, was murdered by Durban-born reggae singer Ras Dumisani prior to Friday's defeat to France in Toulouse.
"I must convey that we are annoyed by the fact that the French disrespected our anthem," blathered Bok coach Peter de Villiers after the game, conveniently ignoring the fact that Mr Dumisani is South African and neatly sidestepping the fact that his forwards had just been beasted by the French pack.
Since then the words "shocked and horrified" have been used by the SARU to describe Mr Dumisani's efforts and a letter of complaint has been written to the FFR (although why it would be their responsibility is beyond me). Even the Young Communist League of South Africa (in a most blatent example of bandwgon jumping) labelled Dumisani as a "disgrace to our country".
"Hilarious" might be a more appropriate word ...
Monday, 16 November 2009
Lessons II
Lessons obviously learned - not.
Here's the XV that Johnno should (but won't) pick to try to salvage something against the All Blacks:
1. Flatman 2. Hartley 3. Bell 4. Shaw 5. Croft 6. Haskell 7. Moody 8. Ward-Smith 9. Simpson 10. Wilkinson 11. Cueto 12. Hipkiss 13. Tait 14. Sackey 15. Foden
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Purple Haze
Half time was therfore a somewhat surreal 0-0 and, with the wind and rain at our backs, we were able to take full advantage in the 2nd half. A catch and drive from a lineout (remember them?) led to the first try and two further tries followed as Chesham ran out 17-0 winners.
Here's the trailer:
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Paul Doran-Who?
Monday, 9 November 2009
2. Matt Banahan is not the answer. What was the question?
3. One day we may learn that kicking the ball to the opposition ad infinitum isn't necessarily the cleverest of tactics.
4. Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball, Quick ball............
Saturday, 7 November 2009
At it again
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Chip off the old block
"Someone sent me a text saying he's a bit like I used to be, except more athletic, funnier and better looking..."
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Would you let your kid play rugby?
His argument is that, because the "big hit" is now king in rugby, injuries are now pretty much inevitable. Whereas the tackle used to be about putting someone on the ground, it is now all about taking him out physically. The tackle has, in reality, been replaced by the collision. Rugby, he says, was always a hard game, but it was never this violent.
To a degree I can see his point. When I started out I was always taught to tackle low, around the legs and, to a large extent, I still utilise this somewhat antiquated practice. There's no doubt, however, that over the years tackles have become higher and higher and now it is perfectly acceptable to smash your shoulder into the opposition player's chest, aided and abetted by the prevalence of padding and protection that was outlawed back in my day.
Mr Reason concedes that rugby is relatively safe up to the age of 15 but beyond that he asks a very pertinent question: "How do you tell a lad who thinks he is immortal that rugby is just not worth getting smashed up for?"
With a 6 year old son who is currently mad about football and Doctor Who (although not necessarily in that order), it isn't a question I have yet had to face. And, if and when I do face it, I can't honestly tell you what my response will be.
Friday, 30 October 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Calendar Boys
Saturday, 24 October 2009
A letter from Graham
Dear Steve & Wayne,
I've just had a brilliant idea. Seriously.
You know we've been a bit below par this season? You may have noticed, eh? If it carries on like this it might get a bit embarrassing when we head to Europe. Well, no worries boys, I've got a plan.
Steve – you've had 6 years to sort the forwards out, mate. If you look at your contract of employment with the NZRU you'll see that clause 8.3.2 (c) (vii) requires that you must regularly "make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." What happened? Without Hayman we're just shocking upfront bro. The lineout in particular is stuffed. How hard can it be to chuck the football at the tall bloke in the air?
That's why I've taken the decision to move you to attack coach. There's heaps of talent still in our backline – I suggest you don't interfere and just let them get on with it. Don't stuff it up.
Wayne, mate, for some reason the tries have dried up this season – possibly because you've been telling the players to kick the football all over the paddock every time they get it. I know those Northern bastards refuse to play by our rules but can't we hang on to the ball occasionally? That's why I'm handing Hansen the job of attack coach. Yes, that's right, a forwards coach is taking over, that's how bad it is – his knowledge of kicking is about as extensive as his lineout coaching prowess. Hopefully he can't do too much damage.
Our defence, on the other hand, is still awesome – no surprises there as that's my bit. No need to change anything there. Hang on a sec though, with Hansen in charge of attack there's no one to coach the forwards. I guess I could do that – I mean, how hard can it be? Jump in the lineout, push in the scrum – hardly rocket science. I'm perfect for it.
That leaves defence. I guess you'd better do that Wayne old chum. Try not to stuff it up. Just to tell the boys to keep doing what Uncle Graham's been telling them and she'll be right.
Well, there you have it. A masterplan for our assault on Europe this November.
I'm stoked, what could possibly go wrong?
Kind regards,
The Right Reverend Graham Henry
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Not my finest hour and a bit
Friday, 16 October 2009
A question of judgement
England manager Martin Johnson, meanwhile, still appears to rate Borthwick highly, both as a player and as a captain.
So the question one has to ask is: Who is the best judge of the qualities required to be an international lock forward?
(a) an opinionated Welsh rugby hack; or
(b) one of the world's best (if not the best) 2nd row forwards and captains ever to play the game?
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Missing a trick
I must admit that I've never really been a huge fan of Sevens. I hated playing it as there was nowhere to hide and, for me, watching Sevens has always been more about the beer than what happens on the pitch. On balance, however, I suppose that Olympic status is good news for the game at large.
As for Golf, I really can't fathom how it can be an Olympic sport. Olympic gold is hardly going to be the pinnacle for the likes of Tiger Woods and the proposed format - 72-hole individual stroke play and a field of 60 players with the top 15 world-ranked players automatically eligible (whatever their nationality) - hardly seems to fit the Olympic ideal.
I can't help feeling that the IOC may have missed a trick here. If Golf must be included, why not seize the moment and include Pub Golf instead, providing hope and opportunity for dedicated beer drinkers of all nationalities to come together and compete in quaffing pints (or litres if the Eurpoeans have their way) of ale over an 18-pub course for Olympic glory.
Pub Golf would make for spectacular TV viewing and might even be an event in which Great Britain would excel. And as an exhibition sport at London 2012, it could well turn out to be the focal point for the Games.
Or, failing that, why not Spoof?
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Rolling, rolling, rolling...
- the suspended sentence handed down by the FFR to Mathieu Bastareaud for telling porky pies about his "assault" in Wellington in June. An eminently sensible decision by the FFR. Yes, Bastareaud was stupid, but there was nothing malicious in his actions and ultimately no one got hurt apart from a few very sensitive Wellingtonians;
- the dropping of the case by the Crown Prosecution Service against Lesley Vainikolo after the jury had failed to return a verdict. It now seems that there's a new defence to charges of assault that goes along the lines of "I'm famous, I was shitfaced and I thought that I was going to be attacked so got my retaliation in first and punched the crap out of him" - as patented by Scouse footballer Stevie Gerrard;
- the RFU Task Force report that concluded that "there is no substantiation whatsoever for allegations that cheating is widespread and systemic in the game either at international or domestic level." This, despite the fact that 12% of players questioned admitting that they knew of injuries being feigned in international matches and 41% saying the same thing in the context of domestic or European rugby. How much evidence do the RFU need to conclude that just there might be a bit of cheating going on?
Another issue to come out of the Task Force report is the issue of rolling substitutions. Now I know that there are many who believe that rolling substitutions will lead to the advent of specialist kickers being brought on just to take kicks and behemoth props being developed to bring on tactically at opportune moments, but to be honest I can't see much of an alternative for the professional game. As things stand the rules surrounding blood replacements are way too complex and, despite the efforts of the authorities, are still open to abuse. Removing the temptation to cheat by allowing rolling substitutions - albeit with certain safeguards such as limiting the number of substitutions allowed in a game - therefore has a certain logic.
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
If at first...
Scrum Queens
The site – http://www.scrumqueens.com/ - will cover the international women's game at both 15 and 7 aside level. The launch comes during a pivotal year for the sport with a final decision on whether to make rugby 7s an Olympic sport, which would include women, due in October. The Women's Rugby World Cup will also take place next summer in London.
The site features international rugby tournament news and information from leading competitions such as the Women's 6 Nations, Nations Cup, and Women's Rugby World Cup, real-time results, a world fixtures calendar and an interactive gallery for the women's community.
ScrumQueens.com, which will include both professional and user-generated content, is to host a wide range of blogs from well known names in the women's sport including current Irish rugby international Fiona Coghlan and international rugby referee Clare Daniels. It will also feature regular guest bloggers from the world of rugby and sport looking at issues facing both the men's and women's game.
As rugby continues to grow internationally the site will also provide coverage of the game in emerging nations with the ultimate aim of improving the profile of the sport globally and in the short-term increasing the promotion of the Women's Rugby World Cup 2010.
The site launches with features on the impact Olympic 7s could have on the women's game and interviews with South Africa coach Denvar Waanies, and England captain Catherine Spencer as well as with dedicated news from around the globe with specific countries catered for in various site sections.
ScrumQueens.com also aims to interact with supporters and fans in a number of ways including encouraging readers to upload their own international match pictures and inviting them to contribute to blog posts.
Behind the site are a group of women's rugby players with strong links to the game. Website editor, Alison Donnelly is the former PRO for the Irish women's rugby team and she's also worked on major international rugby tournaments for various international rugby bodies. Website designer and developer Sarah Edwards, who also plays rugby, has invested in the site through her London-based creative agency Make It Clear and she will continue to provide support throughout the site's development.
Alison Donnelly said: "It's been a fantastic year for the women's game with the IRB Rugby World Cup 7s featuring women for the first time and next month the England women's team will take on the world champion Black Ferns at Twickenham as part of a men's double header in what should offer some major exposure for the game. We feel there's a real need for a strong online portal for the game and we're delighted with the look and feel of the site." The site was designed by creative agency Make it Clear.
For more information contact: Alison Donnelly, firstname.lastname@example.com or 0044 7516797560
Monday, 28 September 2009
Saturday, 26 September 2009
The world according to Graham
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Money for old rope...
Apparently this "ground-breaking initiative" was two years in the making.
I daresay some marketing "guru" somewhere is laughing all the way to the bank.
Saturday, 19 September 2009
Are we there yet?
Has "the 3 teams playing amongst themselves for an eternity" tournament finally finished?
I confess I've seen very little of this year's Tri Nations but that in no way prevents me from having an opinion i.e.
- South Africa: well done on becoming 3N champions. You found the Lions far more of a handful than Australia and New Zealand and I have a sneaking suspicion that you might now have just peaked;
- Australia: it looks very much like you might just about have found yourselves a scrummage at last, and in doing so the rest of your game appears to have gone to pot. Nevertheless I have a horrible irrational feeling that you might be the team to beat in 2011;
- New Zealand: if you're going to have a major crisis of confidence then 2 years before the World Cup is as good a time as any. Find a lineout from somewhere and wrap McCaw and Carter in cotton cool for the next 2 years and you'll be fine.
Keith Floyd RIP
Floyd quaffed his way through his TV programmes in the eighties and I have to say that his "Escalope de veau à la moutard" (or "Veal Hiroshima" as it became known in my kitchen) and "Poulet rôti à l'ail" (stuffed with a whopping 2lbs of garlic) - both from his Floyd on France series - are still regularly served up by yours truly, while his Thai Fish Cakes (from Floyd on Oz) have yet to be bettered at any restaurant I've been to.
The fact that he died hours after a massive lunch to celebrate him defeating bowel cancer only adds to his legend. The lunch, which apparently included champagne with a cherry soaked in apple eau de vie, a glass of Pouilly Vinzelles 2006 Burgundy, oysters with potted shrimp and toast, two glasses of Fils Cotes de Rhône 2007, red legged partridge with bread sauce and pear cider made into jelly, has now been added to the menu of the restaurant in question as "Floyd's Last Supper".
Floyd was also, it appears, a rugby zealot and regularly cooked for rugby players on his TV programmes. Here are a few examples:
Friday, 18 September 2009
The Waka
Top 20
Thursday, 17 September 2009
The new kit, almost virginally white, is a vast improvement on the previous abomination.
Minor quibbles:
- Whatever happened to proper collars?
- On the neck of the shirt is the motto 'RUGBEIA FLOREAT UBIQUE' which is, apparently, Latin for 'RUGBY FLOURISHES EVERYWHERE.' Pretentious twaddle and SO middle class.
- A retail price of a smidgen under £90. Ouch.
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Fit for Rugby?
Friday, 11 September 2009
Of Volcanos, Camels and Wolves
The 17½ stone behemoth, taking a leaf out of the book of Liverpool's Stevie Gerrard, has adopted the failsafe "get your retaliation in first" defence, claiming that he was acting in self defence when, during a night out in downtown Bath, he punched the passive Jake Alicker so hard that he fractured his skull.
The fact, however, that Big Les has confessed to being tanked up on...wait for it...Courvoisier and Coke (ye gods!) probably won't count in his favour, and nor will the fact that he later gave a false name to police, claiming to be Shontayne Hape - his "best friend."
Some friend.
Meanwhile, turning to more serious matters, I'm somewhat gutted that Saracens' plans to stage a camel race as part of the entertainment at Saturday's Premiership Big Day Out against Northampton at Wembley have been vetoed by stadium authorities. The Grauniad confirms that damage to the pitch would have been minimal as, and I quote, "camels are cushion-footed quadrupeds", but Wembley's jobsworths have nevertheless refused permission for "a whole host of reasons" including, it seems, health and safety.
Shame. I was thinking of going but I shan't now.
Speaking of ridiculous races, it's heartwarming to see that no sooner is former England wing Ben Cohen back in the country than he's partaking in in some ludicrous publicity stunt. Now Cohen is no Brian Habana, so racing a cheetah is out of the question, but apparently the lumbering ex-international fancies his chances against a Canadian wolf.
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Small beer
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Isn't it ironic #3
40-year-old Richards has apparently been refereeing since 1995 and this will be his 22nd senior appointment.
Monday, 31 August 2009
Big Bad Deano?
It would appear that, despite evidence of widespread skullduggery, all of rugby's ills are the fault of one man and one man only - Big Bad Deano.
Tom Williams was of course an innocent victim in the whole affair, weighed down by a "climate of fear" created by Richards - so innocent in fact that he gave the game away by his pantomime acting and a wink to a team mate and then attempted to blackmail the club in return for his silence. And such was the climate of fear that reportedly 12 Quins players (all forwards apparently) joined Big Bad Deano for a quiet pint last week.
Quins' chairman Charles Jillings, meanwhile, has resigned and apologised - not for attempting to coerce Williams into accepting his 12 month ban, but for the fact the club "failed to control" Dean Richards - the implication being that Big Bad Deano was out of control. This would again suggest that it was Richards and Richards alone who came up with the bold scam and that no one on the management, coaching or support staff either knew about it or was prepared to stand up and say "er, no - that's cheating isn't it?"
We do have the new RFU Task Force, of course, but I won't hold my breath and meanwhile it is ultimately one man (a man who, remember, at least had the guts to resign and take responsibility once the game was up) who is being made to carry the can for the travails of the game as a whole.
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Isn't it ironic...
Here come the girls...
The RFUW are looking for everything from medical assistance to spectator services to liaison officers - anyone interested in helping can find out more and register their interest here.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
The scandal that refuses to die...
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Raking over the Ashes
Monday, 24 August 2009
Pre-Season training?
Monday, 17 August 2009
Saturday, 1 August 2009
De Vacaciones
No laptop, no blackberry, no strawberry nor any other soft fruit (I may have used that line before).

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During the formalities, the movers and the shakers of the the team who worked on every detail of this two day launch were acknowledged. Aside from Francis de Leon, Corporate Brand Marketing and Communications Director of FilArchipelago Hospitality Inc., who conceptualized and organized the event, the rest of the team was composed of Area General Manager- James Montenegro; VP For Sales and Marketing of FIlArchipelago Hospitality, Inc., Pearl Peralta-Maclang; Tristan Las Marias - 1st Vice President of Filinvest Land, Inc.; and the Quest Hotel group who helped execute the details of the launch: Ms. Karen Mendoza, Executive Assistant Manager and Sarah Mascarinas, Director of Sales- Quest Hotel and Mia Sy, PRO.
The guests were treated to an evening of short speeches, an array of tempting dishes and good wines, music by international DJ Kristian Hernandez, a quick-show of artistic talent by internationally acclaimed Cebuano painter Anthony Fermin who did a quick sketch of the Sto. Nino, aided by a number of guests who helped him with their agile brush strokes.
Andrew, Francis and Mercedes Gotianun, Cebu Mayor Mike Rama, AGM James Montenegro, Pearl Maclang, Tristan Las Marias and Robert Bormes
Antony Fermin (above) James Montenegro, Andrew Gotianun Sr. Francis Gotianun, Mercedes Gotianun, Mayor Mike Rama, Tristan Las Marias, Pearl Maclang & Robert Bormes
With the irresistible Mayor Mike Rama
The next evening was another party, this time for the Condominium owners of Quest. The highlight of the evening was the band who played four hours of 80s dance music to the delight of the guests and hotel personnel who danced their hearts out. International dance competitor Ryan Jago broke the ice and did a reggae number with Pearl Maclang while I tripped the light fantastic with Francis de Leon. Everyone else followed suit and soon the whole place was rocking and rolling!
What made my trip memorable was my weekend stay at the idyllic Crimson Resort and Spa. My Villa with its own plunge pool can only be described as World Class. The whole Crimson Resort and Spa is world class. Malca Villanueva, Crimson's Marketing Communications Manager is a bundle of energy and joy who together with Janine Taylor de Padua, Director of Food and Beverage Manager, took us out to rock and roll at Cebu's swinging place, Gilt. Sublime tranquility during the day and rock and roll at night! What a divine combination! Surely, Francis de Leon, Kristian Hernandez, Ryan Jago and I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend Saturday evening.
Mr. Robert Barmes Country GM of Filarchipelago Hospitality Inc., Francis Gotianum VP of Filinvest Development Corp. ,Pearl Peralta-Maclang Director of Communications, James Montenegro GM of Quest Cebu& Crimson Mactan
Tristan Las Marias, Myself & Francis de Leon
the chefs of Quest
It's their excellent service that make a difference!
Power DJ Kristian@heavyhernadez, Francis de Leon, Francis Gotianum, Pearl Peralta-Maclang
It was rocking & a rolling with Cebu's top band!
Sunday was fashion pictorial day. Francis and Malca helped me with an all afternoon fashion shoot for Traversing the Orient Magazine featuring Cebu's talented couturier Hans Coquilla and his formal wear. Crimson is not only the perfect place to relax, rejuvenate, de-stress, chill out, but it is also a prime location for magazine pictorials and fashion shoots. Tempo, the resort's formal dining place has a pianist and a singer on certain nights and star Chef Keith Christie and Chef Nino to whip up gourmet dishes for your special occasions.
Crimson Aum Spa- Ryan J. , Malca Villanueva, Kristian Hernandez, Janine Taylor de Padua & Francis de Leon
In monochromatic colors! Francis de Leon with Aum's excellent therapists
Han Coquilla's fabulous model & creation made our pictorial worthwhile
His goddess look!
Coquilla's bird-cage inspired cocktail dress
Zen- like moments achieved in this Pavillion
The table arrangement at Tempo-Crimson's fine dining restaurant
Antonio Jore, Chef Keith Christie cooked up a storm for us!
chocolate egg surprise by Maiabelle P. Rasonabe Service Associate food attendant, Chef Nino from Pastry Art Attack
Death by chocolate!
Towel artistry at my Villa
All told, it was a sad farewell on Monday morning when we had to bid farewell to Crimson Resort. One can really get addicted. GM James Montenegro, the epitome of graciousness, dropped by during breakfast to say hello and goodbye. Parting is such sweet sorrow!


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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
"MISSING LINKS" will be out shortly, I ask you to watch Fabled Enemies and other so-called "9/11 Truth" and compare who is telling you the truth on the matter. We are making this film on less than 1500 compared to 10's of thousands being funded to lie and gatekeep the real story. When we originally set out to make this film we ended up will 5 HOURS of film tying Jews and Israel to this crime. It was overwhelming and begs to questions how MOST of this information was 'missed' in all these other films. We have compacted down to less than 2 hours. More information very soon.
Japenese did 9/11? from Prothink on Vimeo.
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The only other documentary on Israeli involvement in 9/11 is the anti-neocons one.
I had plugged your trailer for Missing Links on the Loose Change forum on FB back in Dec then all of a sudden the admin tells me that Bermas is starting on this Fabled Enemies doc to be released in summer. Finding out where he (Bermas Jew)came from is a whole other journey of itself.
- August 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM
hey Mike, I'd suggest you break the 5-6 hours of info tying the Jews to 9-11 into 3 parts (and I honestly think there are MORE than 5 hours - the Israelis/Jews posing as "Mohammed Atta" and other Arab Muslims at the flight schools - the financial crimes like )
- August 13, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Please Mike EH?
- August 13, 2008 at 5:25 PM
- Unknown said...
I admire your work, dedication and depth of research.... but its frustrating to come on your page and read you bashing people. You don't know shit about bermas but that doesn't stop you from slandering him(JEW). It hurts your credibility and makes me not want to visit your site.
Is it too much to ask you to change your writing style to not be on the attack at all times? Your reminding me of alex jones!
- August 13, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Hey shawn,
It doesn't hurt his credibility a bit. He just asked you to call HIM as in Prothink into question. Me thinks you may just be here in attempt to chase others away. Btw, you moron, Bermas is an ALLY of Alex Jones, the very guy you just bashed (and quite frankly I have no problem with that). You don't just blindly follow people. He did not SLANDER him btw, he is asking just who the hell this guy is. Nothing wrong with that.
- August 13, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Shawn, get the hell out of here if you want to read "politically correct" bullshit! Mike is a Gentile, and that means he is passionate and he tells it as it is. He is not a concrete-faced Ben Bernanke and Wolf Blitzer who are as cold as ice.
- August 13, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Another video is "Stranger than Fiction" on Google video. Actually , that lame Will ferrel movie pops up so enter Stranger than Fiction 911 in your search. Its very informative , albeit an annoying computerized voice narration. No Mike, your label of "Jew" to Bermas is understood. Who else, right ? Obviously, they troll this site and are threatened.
- August 13, 2008 at 10:20 PM
From what I've read, Jason Bermas is one of the creators of Loose Change. Also, "Fabled enemies" is an Alex Jones production.
- August 13, 2008 at 10:25 PM
- Goyim Pride said...
Please Shawn, do us all a favor and shut up. If you don't like Mike's site, DON'T COME. But those of us who aren't afraid of calling a spade a spade, who aren't afraid of TRUTH, will continue to come here, and link back to Mike's page, videos, movies and research, not to mention getting off OUR asses and doing some of our own(hence my page).
Goyim Pride,
- August 13, 2008 at 11:49 PM
- Unknown said...
anon #1(RCS), anon #2, and goyim pride:
I tried to write my post in a friendly manner... you 3 attack me like Im a criminal. RELAX
All I did was make a suggestion for Mike to change the tone of his writing.
RCS- your obv a novice and maybe a leprechaun?
anon 2- because mike is a gentile he can sling mud?
goyim : damn i wanted to bash you but i checked out your page and it was much more respectful than I hoped
- August 14, 2008 at 2:11 AM
Can you post all you raw footage or whatever other information you have that is going into this video to your server so we can all download it. or at least set it up on rapidshare.com or a torrent.
- August 14, 2008 at 3:09 AM
i understand that Bermas is a Jew and is more then likely leading people away from who was really at fault on 9-11, but the fact is your labeling him, there are allot of Jews out there that are totally against the new world order and know dam well who took down the towers and are good people and hate Zionist. Mike your a good guy and know what the hell is going on, but my dad was a Jew and knew all about the crimes against us, and who was behind it all. now does that make him a bad man since he was Jewish ? i do not follow the Jewish faith but have the blood, does that make me a bad man ? i think you get my point. peace, dave out
- August 14, 2008 at 3:27 AM
- Prothink said...
I guess thats what you get for coming in here and defending Bermas. Most of the people who come to this site are VERY well educated and the Jew tactics don't work here. If you are on the up and up then keep your 2 cents to yourself because I have been calling out the BS since the day I started this site. I wouldn't try 'warming' up to goyim pride and side with him now and create an ally. He is aware of your tactics already and not some fool. Hopefully you wont pull anymore of these tactics because I doubt you'll get anything past this crowd of intelligence.
ak3n470n: I am aware of Dawsons. work ,in fact I was on Rivero's show with him and have that show in my audio files. Let me start by saying this, his information and facts are excellent, but when you get to the end of the 'Dawson Road' he leads you to this "MIC". This is just another tool like banks, media, governments etc. It isn't the tools but the Jews running and controlling these tools for their own benefit. I wouldn't not recommend that people learn some facts from Dawson though because like I said his info is pretty good.
- August 14, 2008 at 3:35 AM
- Unknown said...
Im not defending burmas Im defending "innocent until proven guilty"
I dont know what tactics im using? and Im sure as hell not looking for allies. You guys are crazy, am i supposed to be sum undercover zionist infiltrating your society?
Goyim's page has alot of good information on it and none of what I saw was him crying wolf...it was only him providing information and allowing the reader to form his opinion without influence.
I wrote the post because I'm sick of reading propaganda everywhere. Am I wrong to think its beneficial to provide information without expressing a viewpoint?
Thanks for responding to my previous post
- August 14, 2008 at 1:49 PM
- Prothink said...
Where are this group of 'good Jews' who see all the bullshit the 'bad Jews' are doing a fighting against this? I mean come on, if you are Jew than its time to stand on your soapbox and expose these fucking disgusting 'bad Jews'. The more I look at it and I see the majority of Jews complicit and complacent, the more I find that there really isn't any 'good Jews'. Freedman and Fisher both harshly renounced being Jewish so therefore you might want to do so yourself.
- August 14, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Shawn: Novice? Hardly. Leprechaun? They don't exist. Are you feeling ok shawn? ;)
Is Bermas Jewish, highly probable. Proof? Can't find it, but they're usually as thick as thieves.
But just who in the hell is this guy? He comes into the game late and is one of the executive producers for Loose Change, a film that anyone who has watched it and has been around awhile knows good and well that it's a gatekeeper documentary.
I smell a rat thats for sure. Especially after 3-gatekeeping films, countless radio shows (it's the WASPS!) and an alliance with a known gatekeeper.
And this doesn't make you curious?
Mike is very discerning, he smells a rat and those of us who are willing to go all the way with the TRUTH are small in number and have been labeled, no let's use your word, SLANDERED as FBI, cointel pro, jew haters, you name it. I have heard pudgy jones say these things many of times as a way to dumb our message down. Now your boy who you defend is an ally of this man. Now all of the sudden these guys are going to add the Israeli connection way late in the game and you have a hissy fit over a Bermas comment whos buddy SLANDERS others?
Bermas is complicit in years of suppressing the truth. Jones has to talk about it now, it's gaining to much ground and he would lose much credibility if he does not. The pressure is on Loose Change and Jones to tell it all or the bucks stop coming in. And hell they may even have to go back to their old jobs.
- August 14, 2008 at 11:16 PM
AJ and Bermas embarrassing themselves. Really shows how these "truth leaders" seek the truth.
- August 15, 2008 at 11:58 AM
This is one of the better videos out there, too bad its darryl smith who is part of it.
- August 15, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Anytime I hear the word trick and Bollyn in the same paragraph means Queen Ester. Is he your webmaster?
- August 16, 2008 at 12:45 AM
- Byrd said...
this has been an entertaining read in the comment section here ;)
my favorite was the calling of Scott a 'novice'. funny stuff.
shawn you wanna pussy foot around the issue, this is not the place for you. you have a problem with anything being said about that piece of shit Bermas, then get on over to infowars.com and stay there.
peace, Byrd.
- August 16, 2008 at 10:24 PM
glad i could atleast supply sum entertainment
- August 19, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Mike you have to post what i'm about to say. Here is a youtube video of a Jew who is part of "WeAreChangeLA" confronting the LA city council about Israelis spying on America and the five dancing Israelis caught on 911. This video is amazing. You guys should also read the comments for that video. It seems like the world is waking up to what the Jews are doing to the world. Here is the link to the video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjYvRb0HbhM&feature=related
- August 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM
We have finally come public about the incident between the leadership of WeAreChange NYC and Prothink.org Click here to download: Audio File...
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Generally, I think of myself as someone kind to herself. I am good to my body by exercising regularly and getting monthly deep tissue massages which keep me healthy enough to run competitively. I enjoy eating healthy foods (and some not so healthy treats, too).
I don't have to work as hard daily to be kind to my psyche. I don't usually have a mean tape rolling in my head about myself. I do have things I know I am not great at and when I am frustrated, I will put myself down, which often leads to more mistakes. Those mistakes then reinforce my negative perceptions of my skills.
Recently, my coworker Keila caught me mid putdown and challenged me to rethink where I was placing my mental energy. She caught me before I really set the table to make a big mess of a tedious afternoon of creating spreadsheets. I am grateful to work with people who call me on this negative language. I would never talk to a friend the way I sometimes talk to myself. And I don't have any problem calling a friend out for negative self-talk.
Sometimes we aren't even aware of when we are being unkind to ourselves. We've been buying these negative thoughts and reinforcing them for so long that when we find evidence to dispute the negatives, we are doubtful and have trouble accepting it. No one is great at everything and it is helpful to have an awareness of our areas for potential growth. However, if you're like me and you don't like being less skilled at things and that leads to frustration when mistakes are made which leads to self-defeating statements which leads to more mistakes which leads to a cemented negative view of an area of potential growth, well that's a problem. This becomes even more troubling if it leads to a refusal to try new things.
There can be a fine line between being self-aware and getting stuck believing that you just can't do something well.
It can be an interesting experiment to catch yourself in the negative talk and replace it with a healthier, yet honest statement and then proceed with whatever you're trying to accomplish. You may or may not have greater success this attempt, but if you continue to catch and replace those thoughts, you at least will feel different about yourself and your ability to keep trying.
How many of our greatest inventors failed countless times before they achieved great and often unexpected success? Their ability to tolerate the ambiguity of not knowing how to do something, keep an open mind and flow with creativity instead of negativity separates them from us.
Thomas Edison once said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Isn't that a great statement! How can we be that tolerant with ourselves? Better yet, how can we embrace an uncomfortable process? Is it reasonable to think, "bring it on, I'm bound to learn something from trying again"? Essentially, this is accepting failure as a process. We know we will be stronger, wiser and better off once we allow ourselves to try.
So each time you struggle, fail to achieve an expected outcome or are just stumped, don't chew yourself up. Think, "aha, this is an opportunity to learn and grow!"
Developing this mental flexibility also allows you a quicker rebound when really bad things come your way. Of course, you will feel sad, angry and overwhelmed in the face of loss, pain and struggle. But you can also feel love, joy and gratitude for the growth that comes from living through difficulty.
Practice, practice, practice. Setting the intention to love your whole self—for your talents and for your areas of growth also creates space to love everyone around you in all of their perfect imperfection. You may be way ahead on that one—loving everyone else despite their faults, but not providing yourself the same grace. Well, just ask yourself how you'd treat those other folks and then treat yourself the same when your own faults present themselves. You know they will!
And, finally, learn to accept the love that comes your way. You know those people who really know you—the good, bad and ugly you? And they love you? Keep them around. Accept their love. Love them back. Treat yourself the way they treat you.


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Song of the fireflies
Stars full of light
filled the shadows of your night.
As a dark bird
glides between the shadows,
His soul walks
stealthily among men.
stealthily among men.
A strange light encourages you
As a perfume between the flowers
A yearning that pushes you
As wings of candores
You clothes between the clouds
and it quenches of troubles.
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