Category Archives: Global Politics

Culture Slut: The King is Dead, Long Live the King

You see, a pious litmus test for ecumenical sagacity can be found in the subtler tones of how one presents him or herself while in the public eye – it is not about minute violations of societal norms (such as murder or touching strippers). FTVS’s interminable search for decency, and, alternatively, exposure and castigation of impropriety, is by no means meant to be preferential or partisan. It is truth sought!

And what better illumination of verisimilitude can be found than this dedication to the puberant moments of Sir Michael Jackson (not to be confused with Sir Paul McCartney, also a fan of innocent and FTVS-endorsed little boy sleepovers):

The US prison industrial complex would be wise to steal some pages from the Philippines’ prison playbook. Rehabilitation, not retribution, is what fondles the soul. It is also something MJ steadily taught us in his pursuit of nubile Macauley Culkin replicas.

Economics Slut: FTVS’s Loan Broker

Tender, tender freedom.

Tender, tender freedom.

As consummate financial specialists, FTVS staff is privy to extremely untoxic loans and asset movements, and is highly involved in fiscal policy setting and analysis. Jack Welch is often calling the FTVS office line for hortatory counsel. Timothy Geitner is perhaps a member of the FTVS editorial board.

Kip “Friedman” Penn, as the lead monitor of all FTVS budgetary intercourse, is uncommonly lucent in such issues.

He recently received the email below, an offer remarkable in scope and depth. Surprising even him, it read:

From: “nploan.1@mchsi.com
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:42:07 PM
Subject:

I am Mr Morris Brown a legit loan lender,if you are in need of any
loan,Contact us via email;
Name:…………
Address: ………Duration:…..Amount
Needed………Monthly
income:….Country:……Purpose of
loan………..
Your phone no………

The acumen and tone of his solicitation was rousing. Kip sensed a genuine pioneer of the sovereign market at work. Without hesitation he responded:

from: Kip Penn <deliciouskip@gmail.com>
to: brown_easylloan01@hotmail.com

dateMon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM
subjectRe: LOAN TERMS
mailed-bygmail.com

Hi Mr. Brown.

I am so happy you write to me. I need a loan now! Here my information you asked for.

Name: Kip Penn
Address: P.O. Box 17768
Baltimore, Maryland 21235
Duration: I dont understand
Amount Needed:1,500
Monthly income: $900
Country: United States
Purpose of loan: Allemony

Thank you so much Mr. Morris. You are angel with soft hair!

Kip Penn

Though renowned for its laureate stationing within the monetary matrix of capitalistic freedom, FTVS was dubious of whether or not a man of such stature would respond. At last, our fears were gently soothed and assuaged. Mr. Morris Brown replied with his trademark delightfulness:

from Morris Brown <brown_easyloan@hotmail.com>
reply-to: brown_easylloan01@hotmail.com

to: deliciouskip@gmail.com

dateMon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM
subjectLOAN TERMS
mailed-byhotmail.com

Hello Kip Penn

My Greetings to you in the name of Our Lord, I thank you for showing your full interest in my loan program. The terms of the Amount which you requested as a loan is listed below, I am giving out this loan amount to you, with the duration of 1 years and i believe that you can be trusted.

You have come to the right place were you can get your loan fast and easy, I am a devoted Man and also a Christian and i hope you are too,and i hope you are a legitimate borrower and a believer too, I want you to be faithful and truthful in this transaction, So that we can have a good business relationship ahead, and i hope i can trust you? I can be able to offer you the loan of sum $1,500.00

I have stated the terms of the loan below for you to see and tell me if you are in agreement with the loan terms and condition  or not.

MORRIS  EASY LENDING COMPANY
Plot 125, FCT, Abuja , Nigeria
Ref: EA-ASL/941OYI/02/LN-N GR
SSL: 12/25/0034
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
MORRIS  FIRMS IS REGISTERED
UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF: MOT
Registration (Z720633X)
TELL:+234-3933-3052

However, dear reader, FTVS is fearful that a militia from the great country of Africa has absconded our dear Mr. Morris Brown. The Maoist adumbration that casts itself over his country has surely swallowed him whole – for no reason other than providing pecuniary offerings to his American friends.

Culture Slut: FDA, Leave Djarums Alone

Djarum_Black_wallpaper_by_ninguy

T

he FDA’s fascist campaign against the tobacco industry wants my beloved Djarums dead. But why?

If there is one kind of cigarette both smokers and non-smokers can enjoy together it is the clove. Non-smokers admire the smell and the nectarious paper around the filter. Self-conscious smokers adore being the perplexing anomaly in the crowd. The miasma of self-importance is subtle but powerful in these sexualized Indonesian secretion sticks. The cloves contribute their fair share to population control, keeping actuaries happy and insurance premiums low. And can we overlook the large revenue it generates to help maintain Indonesia’s independence from the Dutch East India Company? Were the multiple earthquakes and terrorist attacks insufficient acts of sovereign sodomy?

Must the cloves really be banned?

Candy flavored cigarettes I’ll concede. They epitomize self-indulgence, they are a small middle finger raised in a crowd of good people, and they are to man what a hula hoop is to ass-wiping. Perhaps I’ll shed a tear for the destroyed fetus on the cigarette box I remove from my pocket. Perhaps I will reminisce of Sarah Palin. But can’t a compromise be had over Djarums? Did zicam destroy the FDA’s sense of smell, and is this why the totalitarian government agency so heartlessly forbids the odorous rapture that Djarums provide?

FDA please come to your senses. There is a solution so simple a police officer could have come up with it: let us not allow people under 18 years of age to smoke the delicious Djarums.

Culture Slut: Race in the Age of Obama

There is a specter haunting San Francisco.

Until recently, a clear and incontrovertible rule had been justly respected: female-gendered African-Americans between the ages of 30-45, and male-gendered Orientals (jovial appellation, not racism) between the ages of 45-60 years retained an unmitigated monopoly on the Bay Area’s bus driving circuit.

It rests exclusively within the province of these two marvelous racial categorizations to ensure my timely arrival at the location from where I conduct groundbreaking research.

No longer.

Last Saturday, as I boarded my bus, I was awestruck by the fact that a white male was piloting one of the city’s urban transport jalopies (71L to be precise). This evidenced a clear violation of the ordained ethnological stratification that has been maintained in San Francisco for decades. Or at least for as long as minorities have been allowed to navigate these insalubrious Marxist vessels.

To avoid being sent to an Auschwitz-like detention camp, I secreted my knowledge of his genuine constitution, knowing full well his capacity for rape and theft.

As an apostle of integrity, I am burdened with a profound obligation to expose neo-colonial stratagems wherever they are to be found. It is my devoir to expose the thieving of the modes of production! The pilfering of the proletariat to satiate the frothing appetites of the honkey bourgeoisie.

I will proceed immediately to the climax:

From Amistad to bus 71L, the slave-trading cracker is insatiable.

From Amistad to bus 71L, the slave-trading cracker is insatiable.

As the bus door squeegeed itself open, I lifted my gaze to the driver. Of course, based on my unparalleled knowledge of race relations in urban histories, I rightly expected to encounter a jubilant Nubian princess at the helm, perhaps named Shaquiqui, her nails bright as the sun, as long and sharp as pocketknives. Or quite possibly today would bring me Xiang, that cantankerous Canton, with his mole-whiskers and noxious body odor that smells of schadenfreude. Surely, you can appreciate the paralytic shock that possessed my being when I saw that 40-something year old Caucasian oppressor, likely a trafficker in humans, sitting in the seat normally reserved for those of more tender coloration.

“Good morning.” he said to me. Absurd! This imperial despot’s attempted bamboozlement, his attempt to appear benign, if not downright friendly, was evaded. It is widely known that bus-drivers do not acknowledge those they convoy. It is in the order of man.

To avoid being sent to an Auschwitz-like detention camp, I secreted my knowledge of his genuine constitution, knowing full well his capacity for rape and theft. I sat at the back of the bus – a locale usually reserved for connoisseurs of heavily polluted crack cocaine and individuals whom indulge in courageous research aimed at identifying the biological consequences of excessive libation.

Like my fellow riders, I pretended not to be perturbed by this sacrilege. We all clenched our buttocks to the urine-scented seats. There was a shared fear of the white devil shepherding us.

Not without miracle, I arrived at my destination without physical harm. The mental assailment, however, remains. Upon arriving at the office from which I disseminate my field(s) of expertise, I immediately transcribed a letter to our Mussolini-like bastard of a mayor. That noxious malefactor, Gavin Newsom.

Needless to say, my courageous ode of justice has yet to solicit any response. With great clarity and confidence I declare that the civic fascists running this city are indeed swastika-fondling overlords. And that a great wave of oppression has crashed across northern California!

What is next? Dare I even ask?

Will the people of Japan begin constructing my shawarma? What then, will the émigrés of Lebanon do? Will the Australians take over the Thai restaurants and happy ending massage parlors? How shall the great people of Siam acquire their sustenance? Will the Sri Lankans subsume the taxi industry? What of the Punjabi people? Will the Ecuadorians begin DJing trance music? What will the Dutch do?

I alone cannot answer such questions of allocation and role. So I ask you, my fanatical reader base, to answer them with me. Where do we stand with our categories of race and expectation in this age of Obama?