O.C. Welch, "Rice-Ready", I Need Me Some Sauerkraut, And What Does Buy American Really Mean?

This has been making the rounds via news sites like CNN (see the above video) - and you can also catch an article at The Beaufort Gazette - but in his attempt to help his failing business, dumbass O.C. Welch decides to go where everyone else has decided to go in the past - Asian bashing:

"On them Japanese cars, even when they're brand new, how come they don't smell like a new car?," Welch asks in his ad. "All those cars are rice-ready, they're not road-ready. When you gonna wake up?"

Are you fucking kidding me? Rice-ready?

I don't have any problems with people focusing on the U.S. - obviously since I'm Asian American I want my country to be doing well economically - but I have a problem when dumbasses like O.C. Welch keep on using the excuse that our downturn, recession, depression - whatever you want to call it - is the fault of Japanese car makers.

It's old. It's tired. And invariably you always get the racist statement that's thrown in there as well, which directly affects Asian Americans here.

I mean do I have to bring up Vincent Chin?

Isn't it funny how we never hear statements like "On them German cars, even when they're brand new, how come they don't smell like a new car? All those cars are gas chamber kraut ready, they're not road-ready. When you gonna wake up?"

It's perfectly fine for The Hoff and Klum to get on T.V. and sell Fahrvergnügen but the moment we're feeling a pinch in the auto industry who do people look to blame?

I know it's not The Hoff and his people.

And Buying American Really Means?

Now don't get me wrong - support American business (and that means American business of all colors) - but in a lot of ways - especially in regard to the auto industry - we need to start thinking about a new mantra to roll out in addition to "Buy American" - because it's a little outdated (just like O.C. Welch).

How about something more along the lines of Made By Americans?

O.C. Welch probably doesn't know - or even care - that a lot of import cars are produced here in the U.S.

He probably doesn't know that by 2010 Toyota alone will have about 21,000 employees - American workers - in its manufacturing facilities here in the U.S., and that between Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, Isuzu, and Subaru that these "rice-ready" car makers create jobs for about 100,000 Americans right now - and that's a lot of jobs.

So buying American and supporting the American economy?

It doesn't mean that you have to buy a Ford anymore.

You can roll in your Honda, Toyota, Nissan - whatever your flavor - and know that the car you're driving actually does help our economy.

Nobel Prize Laureate Steven Chu And Secretary Of Energy

Just in case you haven't heard, Obama has made another Asian American nomination for his cabinet in Steven Chu for Secretary of Energy. Chu, who's currently the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (as well as a professor) is most noted for his work in laser cooling and trapping atoms which earned him a Nobel Prize in '97 for Physics (shared with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips).

Random Facts And Quotes

Here's some random facts and quotes from him which I grabbed from a now 10+ year old article from AsianWeek:

Chu's the oldest of three boys.

Chu's parents left China in the 1940s.

On getting sent to Chinese school in fourth grade: "But by the time you're in fourth grade, and all your friends are Americans, they try to take you to a Chinese school, you rebel."

Chu and his brothers never learned to really speak Chinese because his parents spoke to him and his brothers in English.

On growing up and feeling discriminated against: "There was a little, but not much. A few kids would taunt us, call us names. But for the most part, we were generally accepted."

Chu believes that if he could stay in China for six months he'd be fluent in Mandarin.

On opposing the Vietnam War: "I didn't think smashing windows was an effective way of showing my concern."

On feeling discrimination later on in life: "That's why many Asians go into science and engineering. They're more race-blind. If you go into business for yourself, that's fine, too, but not corporate America."

He likes tennis.

Guuzen no Kakuritsu

Been vibing a lot to Girl Next Door so I thought I'd post up their first MV.



I'm a little more into the song versus the video - I like the vibe - but the vids still pretty hot.

That's A Really Cute Monkey

You might have thought that the title of this post had nothing to do with monkeys - just like a previous post had nothing to really do with the genetic misfit labradoodle, but really - that's a cute monkey.

Researchers have discovered a new population of one of the world's rarest monkeys in the forests of northern Vietnam, raising slender hopes for the species's survival.

The Tonkin snub nosed money dwindled to the brink of extinction due to habitat loss and hunting by humans - a trend exacerbated by the creature's relatively fearless and inquisitive nature. In the 1980s scientists believed it was extinct.

More recently only 200 were believed to remain and the latest discovery of a new colony of 20 monkeys, including young, offers a glimmer of hope for the species.

"All recent indications suggest that we have a fantastic opportunity to secure this population and significantly increase the chances of survival of this species," said Paul Insua-Cao of Fauna and Flora International, which made the discovery.

"Most significant is all the excitement this has generated locally and the support that is coming from the local Vietnamese government agencies and Caritas Switzerland . With almost half the world's primate species under threat from extinction, we must do everything we can," he added.

The biologists observed that the monkeys were more wary of people, issuing warning signs to each other, suggesting they may be the target of hunters. There is also logging in the area.

"When I saw the Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys ... I was overjoyed," said FFI's Quan Ba, who took the photograph of the creature staring at him.

Read more down at the Telegraph.

And yes - I too want to touch the monkey.

The KoreAm Magazine Benefit Show

I posted a bit ago on print media and KoreAm and the difficulties that niche magazines can have and saw over at AAM that the folks from Kollaboration will be putting on a benefit show for the magazine which sounds pretty cool:

The show will be hosted by Heroes star James Kyson Lee, with music by DJ Shy (of KIIS FM), featuring comedians Kevin Shea, Eliot Chang, Randall Park, Walter Hong, Andy Hur and PK, and musical performers Dumfoundead, Caroline Kang and Sam Geunjin Kang.

VIP tickets are $100. Tickets at the door are $30 and if you're on the guestlist, they're only $20—and that includes a one year subscription to Koream (regularly $28). So you get a free show, a one year subscription at $8 off, and you're supporting an important community publication. I say that's a fair deal.

It's all going down tomorrow night, Thursday, December 11, 9:45pm at the newly opened Laugh Factory in Long Beach. Get on the guest list by emailing pkguestlist@gmail.com. For more information about the event, go here.

It's short notice - but hopefully you can get on out and help support the event.

Chandni Chowk To China

Caught this via degenerasian - and it looks like it could be a fun time at the movies.

A Call For Answers

TMM forwarded this out to me and I'm reprinting it here in whole with his permission.

Check it.

A CALL FOR ANSWERS
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PUBLIC

DATE: 12/10/2008

FROM: TMM (MY REAL NAME)
TO: PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH; ROBERT GATES; ADMIRAL MULLEN; OBAMA-BIDEN TRANSITION OFFICE; CNN; MSNBC; FOX NEWS; AMERICAN RED CROSS; NAACP; NATIONAL COALITION FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION
CC: TMM BLOG READERS AND VISITORS

SUBJECT: F/A - 18D Hornet Aircraft Crash In San Diego

Okay, there's a whole bunch of things going on in the news right now and I'm sure they all have some relevance to the people who visit here, but I gotta tell you, I am outraged about this FA-18D Hornet that crashed into a residential community and nearly killed an entire family. I went on all three major cable news networks today and apparently this issue has pretty much been washed down the drain as we speak. I wanna tell you something, this is a public matter that needs to be addressed at the highest levels of government. This is a military aircraft we're talking about that was involved in this tragedy, not a commercial plane. And the fact that it malfunctioned above a heavily populated city like San Diego -- it just scares the living shit out of me.

Where's the outrage folks? Why the fuck is Caylie Anthony on the news when we just had a tragic event that should be embarrassing enough for at least the civilian leadership in the defense department to address to the American people that they are all over this like white on rice. That's what needs to happen. Where is our fearless leader George Bush at? Where's Admiral Mullen? Where's Robert Gates? How come we're not having a press conference to address the fact that one of the most sophisticated fighter aircraft we have in the military arsenal isn't going to malfunction again -- and in the middle of cities and towns we live in??

I'm am so outraged I can't help but watch replays of that man weeping because he's just lost everyone that was near-dear to what is humane about life. We're talking about women and children that have lost their lives due to either technical issues, negligence, or just operator error. There is a part of me that is torn by this because I haven't seen anyone with some influence give a goddamn care in the world about what just happened two days ago. If this was a White family that had been destroyed, I guarantee you this would've been cycled in the news for the next two weeks.

Someone needs to be held accountable and there needs to be an outburst of public dismay to what we've just witnessed before us. Who is this pilot? How long has he been on the job? Was the routine maintenance done on this aircraft? How much fuel did it have when it left base? Where did it leave from? Where was the plane headed? How did both of the engines give out? What are the ejection procedures? I wanna know all this information because it is relevant to how this came about and so we can take the necessary precautions so this doesn't happen again in the future. The fact that this plane didn't drop in a school or a hospital is relief enough that we should be addressing this at the highest offices of public service.

Respectfully,

-SIGNED-

TMM (MY REAL NAME)

WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN: HERE

THIS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE THAT DEMANDS ANSWERS.

Nintendo Love Me Long Time And Maybe They Meant Niña?

So I've been catching this story about Nintendo who sent out copies of their game Animal Crossing (for media review) where you can insert words for your animal neighbors to learn and apparently someone had programmed in some phrases already for a sheep named Baabara who comes up to you and says "Love u long time!!" and "How are you N***a".

Ummm - oops?

I think that sheep needs its mouth washed out with some soapy soap.

Word To My Sukhee

Cool news and another first:

Irvine swears in first Korean-American mayor

Sukhee Kang on Tuesday was sworn in as Irvine's first Korean American mayor, becoming the first non-white candidate to take the highest elected post in an increasingly multicultural community.

Kang, a first-generation immigrant, appears to be the first Korean American mayor in Orange County, and is among only a few Korean American mayors in the country. He described his mayoral victory as the pinnacle of his "American experience," which began more than 30 years ago, when he arrived in the United States with his wife Joanne.

"We had few material assets and only our hopes and dreams to sustain us," Kang said. "Who would have imagined that this land of opportunity would not only allow me to establish my family, but also have access to the educational resources to allow my children to excel in their studies and grow into accomplished young adults, to afford me the opportunity to become the mayor of this great city of Irvine?

Is it just me or are we taking over the world?

Keanu Reeves, 47 Ronin, And Being A Cat Who's Really A Pumpkin Who Wants To Be A Labradoodle

I was reading a post down at Gil Asakawa's blog called Keanu Reeves as a samurai: Is it still ‘yellowface’ if the actor is hapa? about Reeves who'll be starring in the film 47 ronin and it definitely made me think about a few things:

The Hollywood news source Variety reported yesterday that Keanu Reeves, everyone’s favorite hapa actor (his father is Hawai’ian-Chinese) is going to play the lead role in a samurai epic, “47 Ronin.”

The 47 Ronin is the celebrated 18th century story from Japanese history, of a group of masterless samurai who avenged the death of their feudal lord, or daimyo, after a year of planning and then committed seppuku, or ritual suicide, to maintain their warrior code of honor, or bushido. The story’s been told a lot in Japanese movies, in variations of the title “Chushingura.” The most recent remake in Japan was “47 Ronin” (”Shijushichinin no shikaku”) in 1994, written and directed by Kon Ichikawa.

It’s cool to think that Hollywood is going to tell this story, with the the spectacle of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and the star power of Reeves.

But it makes me wonder about the choice of Reeves.

On one hand it's great to see another Asian face on the big screen in any form and I'll take Reeves over someone like Tom Cruise any day - at the same time - it does bring up the interesting point again (as previous films have) as to who should be getting cast when it comes down to specific Asian ethnicities.

When is just being Asian good enough to play any Asian role? Is it ever? Should it ever?

I have to admit that it's something I go back and forth on - a decent amount - because I don't know if there's a clear cut answer.

For instance if Gran Torino (which opens up this December 12th) took the Hmong cast and replaced them with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese actors - wouldn't that just be wrong?

And if you say yes like me - ask yourself why - and then tack on the following questions: When do we allow Asian and Asian American actors to act as anyone - to be anyone? Isn't that what they were meant to do? Isn't that their profession? Do we do them a disservice when we say to them "You can't play (insert ethnicity) because you're not (insert ethnicity)"? Do we limit the already slim choices they can sometimes have because of that?

It's a complicated issue, and for me at least, I think it comes down to each individual film, the role, and the star.

Like I didn't have that big of a problem with Zhang Ziyi playing a Japanese character in Memoirs Of A Geisha - I get though why other people had a problem with it and I'm not discounting those views at all - I get it - but I'm also a fan of her as an actress and am up for seeing anything she's in.

So my personal preference outweighed anything else.

But like I said above, I'd have a problem with the Hmong cast getting replaced by Japanese, Korean, and Chinese actors in Gran Torino in part because of the lack of Hmong American faces in mainstream film - to finally have a film with this many Hmong characters and not have them played by Hmong actors and actresses?

We'd have a serious issue there.

At the same time if there's a bit character in a TV show and the character is Chinese and their played by a Japanese actor - I don't really care. I'm glad they're on TV and I'm glad they have work - and I guess - when it really comes down to it - in a way I'm just happy that I can even have these thoughts, because it at least means we're seeing ourselves in some form or another in mainstream media, and while we always have to keep on pushing for more - because we still have a long way to go - somedays that's enough for me.

Washington's Best: Asian American LEAD

It's always good to spread the word on Asian American non-profits getting some pub, like Asian American LEAD who got listed in the December issue of the Washingtonian as one of the DC area's 64 best charities (if you click on the pic above you'll get a larger image with the article).

At the same time - save the date - February 5, 2009 - as they'll be having their 10th Annual Dinner featuring DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee as their keynote speaker.

Check out both the site and the blog for more information.

Korean Family Killed In Fighter Crash

Sad news I caught out down at TMM on a Korean family and the F/a-18D plane that crashed into San Diego homes:

Just in case you guys didn't know, The F/A-18D Hornet that crashed into those homes in San Diego yesterday killed three people in a Korean family. This is truly sad so I hope they get down to the grit of what went wrong with the fighter jet. I'm sure the defense department is pretty embarrassed about this whole ordeal, but when you crash government planes in residential homes, something's gone seriously wrong.

Read it in full here.

Eric Shinseki And The Department Of Veteran Affairs

I don't know a lot about Shinseki - I'm kind of learning as everyone else is (and it's not like I'm the all knowing MBTI Magic 8-Ball) so here's a bunch o' links on another first.

Thoughts on Shinseki and Cabinet Appointments

Obviously, the big news today for both AAPIs and the transition in general is the nomination of General Eric Shinseki for Secretary of Veterans Affairs. This department was elevated to cabinet level by Congress in 1988, beginning with the H.W. Bush Administration. In recent years with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this department has gained increasing importance. Under George W. Bush, this was yet another department that became notorious for incompetence, with the discovery of shockingly poor conditions at Walter Reed, our nation’s supposedly pre-eminent veterans hospital (and hospital to many government leaders). It’s now the second largest cabinet department, responsible for managing our enormous VA medical system, which is actually one example of how national health care might work. With the recently passed new GI Bill, VA will oversee the administration of all sorts of services and benefits.

General Shinseki has had an amazing career, having served and been wounded in Vietnam, commanded US and NATO forces in Europe, with the last major move in his career appointment as Army Chief of Staff by President Clinton in 1999. I was interning for the Organization of Chinese Americans in DC when he was nominated and confirmed, and I remember one of my assignments was drafting a letter from OCA commending the nomination. I was extremely happy with the choice at the time, as Shinseki was the first Asian American four star general and the first AAPI to head up the US Army.

Turnabout is Fair Play: Obama Picks Shinseki to Head Veterans Affairs

General Eric Shinseki, the first Asian American commander to attain the Army's 4-star rank, was essentially ushered into retirement for offering Congress a blunt assessment of the number of troops it would take to secure Iraq in the aftermath of a then-theoretical war.

Shinseki's ouster, especially in the wake of all that went wrong in Iraq, seemed to epitomize all that was wrong with a Donald Rumsfeld-led Defense Department, and gave further ammunition to those who claimed W. was a president in a plastic bubble, not interested in hearing dissenting views.

Well, president-elect Barack Obama has decided that the 66-year-old Shinseki is too young and too prescient to be spending the September of his years on a golf course. So, in a corrective of sorts, he has asked the general to get back to work. This time, he'll be heading up The Department of Veterans Affairs.

Obama introduces Shinseki as VA chief, praises his warnings about Iraq war

The very man rejected by the Bush administration for warning that Iraq would be no cakewalk is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be Veterans Affairs secretary.

Eric Shinseki, 66, was Army chief of staff when months before the Iraq war was launched, he warned that several hundred thousand troops would be needed -- more than the Bush administration planned.

What does Shinseki mean to the Department of Veteran Affairs?

Over the weekend, retired four star Army General Eric Shinseki, was appointed as the Secretary of Veteran Affairs in the new Obama administration. So what does this mean for one of the largest government agencies?

Personally, I don’t think it’ll change too much; it depends on if and how Shinseki shakes things up in the VA. He has definitely presented a record of speaking his mind regardless of status quo and that actually would help shape up the agency, but with Obama’s administration pushing “change”, this is one of the few agencies that runs decently outside of their bad image.

Lang Lang And The First YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Here's the description from YouTube:

Lang Lang, the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra Ambassador, talks about the YouTube Symphony Orchestra and plays a piece of the Internet Symphony by Tan Dun.

Here's the video



Sweet.

Slumdog Millionaire Trailer

Been hearing a lot about Slumdog Millionaire so I thought I'd post up the trailer for anyone that hasn't seen it yet.

Anh Joseph Cao: And You're The First

Boston Herald: Cao with his wife Kate Hieu Hoang and his daughter Betsy

Caught this via some news reports as well as reader UBJ that Anh Joseph Cao, who you heard me talk about in a previous post ended up defeating Democratic incumbent William Jefferson to become - get this - the first Vietnamese American in Congress.

The first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress took advantage of dissatisfaction with a longtime incumbent dogged by corruption allegations and reflects the changing nature of New Orleans politics since Hurricane Katrina.

Republican immigration attorney Anh "Joseph" Cao defeated Democratic U.S. William Jefferson on Saturday in an election postponed for a month by Hurricane Gustav.

The victory for a 41-year-old child of Vietnam War refugees was greeted with amazement and drew parallels to last year's election of Gov. Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American Republican.

It also confirms a general shift to the GOP in Louisiana, where the Democratic Party dominated for generations and no Republican had represented New Orleans since 1890.

I have to be honest though - while on one hand I'm extremely excited at Cao being the first Vietnamese American in Congress, I can't help but wish that he was a Democrat.

I guess we just have to take small steps?

Yes - That Was A Long Post

Just some housekeeping - but if your feed was little long - I ended up changing out the 50 blogs/sites and personality post and shortened it up a bit. Each description is listed now just once.

I know - measure twice, cut once.

Heart, Mind and Seoul: Asian American Blogger Gets Threats To Her Family

I've been a little reticent to blog about this, but down at Racialicous there's a post on a blogger who blogs down at Heart, Mind and Seoul who's had to effectively shut down her blog because she's gotten threats to her family and children from someone who apparently lives in her same state - and if you read what has been going on there, rather than getting ready for the holidays and enjoying this time, she's been dealing with the unthinkable.

If you get the chance, stop over at a fellow Asian American blog and give her some support from the community. While I'm sure she has to be thinking about a lot - I'm also sure the support will go a long way showing her that the community is out there supporting her as an Asian American woman.

When one of our own is simply talking about race and racism or their experiences as an Asian American, person of color, mother - anything - they shouldn't have to endure threats to the people they love.

Disagreements are one thing, but threatening the lives of someone's children and family simply because of what they speak about is completely uncalled for.

So again, do me this favor.

Show her some support.

While you can't read any of her previous posts anymore, I've read her blog as she's had some great insight into race and racism, and you can take my word for it - a voice like hers only adds to the community - and I hope that once this is all over she'll be able to speak her voice again in whatever format she chooses, however she sees fit, as an Asian American woman.

50 Blogs/Sites And Their Myers-Briggs Personality

I happened to stumble upon something called Typealyzer which looks through blogs and tells you what personality they have (at least from the text on the page) according to the ubiquitous Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. So I decided to randomly enter in a few blogs (as well sites to see how it handled them or group blogs) and below are the results (listed in alphabetical order).

Random notes:

1. I didn't write these descriptions (I'm just reposting what the analyzer gave back to me with exception to a couple spelling errors) and for each site that you enter there's also an analysis chart for brain activity showing what parts of the brain were dominant during the writing - which I'm not posting.

2. I ran sites and blogs through late Sunday night early Monday morning and pointed them to the main content pages and I realize that sites may confuse the analyzer but wanted to throw them in anyway like I said above.

3. Obviously these can change depending upon the posts because it only looks at front page content (and it's in Beta) - for instance this blog (which I'm including in the 50) when I ran it through two separate times on two separate days has both a personality of ISTP - The Mechanics and ESTP - The Doers. So depending upon how much stock you put into this (if any) know that - but it's fun to check out either way.

4. Depending upon how much quoting you do of other articles, the more I'm sure that this has an effect on the output. It might be interesting to run a series of posts through the analyzer one by one and see what the personality is out of say 5 or 10 (if you have nothing better to do like me).

5. If you're interested in some of the workings/review of it you can check out the LingPipe Blog (Natural Language Processing and Text Analytics) as well as the Typealyzer site itself (specifically the About section).

The Types

Update: I've edited this to put the types here just once because the post got a little long.

ESTP - The Doers: The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities. The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.

ISTP - The Mechanics: The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the demands of the moment are masters of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously. They generally prefer to think things out for themselves and often avoid inter-personal conflicts. The Mechanics enjoy working together with other independent and highly skilled people and often like seek fun and action both in their work and personal life. They enjoy adventure and risk such as in driving race cars or working as policemen and firefighters

ESTJ - The Guardians: The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done. Once they´ve made up their mind on something, it can be quite difficult to convince otherwise. They listen to hard facts and can have a hard time accepting new or innovative ways of doing things. The Guardians are often happy working in highly structured work environments where everyone knows the rules of the job. They respect authority and are loyal team players.

ESFP - The Performers: The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don't like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves. The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.

ISTJ - The Duty Fulfillers: The responsible and hardworking type. They are especially attuned to the details of life and are careful about getting the facts right. Conservative by nature they are often reluctant to take any risks whatsoever. The Duty Fulfillers are happy to be let alone and to be able to work in their own pace. They know what they have to do and how to do it.

INTJ - The Scientists: The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it - often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be physically hesitant to try new things. The Scientists enjoy theoretical work that allows them to use their strong minds and bold creativity. Since they tend to be so abstract and theoretical in their communication they often have a problem communicating their visions to other people and need to learn patience and use concrete examples. Since they are extremely good at concentrating they often have no trouble working alone.

INTP - The Thinkers: The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications. They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about.

ISFP The Artists: The gentle and compassionate type. They are especially attuned their inner values and what other people need. They are not friends of many words and tend to take the worries of the world on their shoulders. They tend to follow the path of least resistance and have to look out not to be taken advantage of. They often prefer working quietly, behind the scene as a part of a team. They tend to value their friends and family above what they do for a living.

ESFJ - The Socializers: The social and opiniated type. They are especially attuned to the feelings of themselves and others. They tend to be very aware of the values of their peer-group and tend to see things as either right or wrong, good or bad. They tend to be traditional and value their friends and family the most. The Socializers are down-to-earth, practical people and very keen on making sure everyone is alright. This quality makes them enjoy social work places. Since they enjoy beeing and keeping things neat and tidy, they often also enjoy working in such environments.

ENTP - The Visionaries: The charming and trend savvy type. They are especially attuned to the big picture and anticipate trends. They often have sophisticated language skills and come across as witty and social. At the end of the day, however, they are pragmatic decision makers and have a good analytical abilitity. They enjoy work that lets them use their cleverness, great communication skills and knack for new exciting ventures. They have to look out not to become quitters, since they easily get bored when the creative exciting start-up phase is over.

ENTJ - The Executives: The direct and assertive type. They are especially attuned to the big picture and how to get things done. They are talented strategic planners, but might come off as insensitive to others needs and appear arrogant. They like to be where the action is and like making bold and sweeping changes in complex situations. The Executives are happy when their work let them learn and improve themselves and how things work around them. Not beeing very shy about expressing their ideas and often very outgoing they often make excellent public speakers.

And What Type Are You?

I wanted to keep on plugging in a lot of sites but I could only pump in so many and interestingly enough, some sites gave back an error - if yours isn't on here just go to Typealyzer and see what it is.

/FILM: ESTP - The Doers
8Asians: ESTP - The Doers
Angry Asian Man: ESTP - The Doers
The Antisocial Ladder: ESTP - The Doers
Asiance Magazine: ISTP - The Mechanics
Asian-Nation Blog: ISTP - The Mechanics
AsianWeek: ESTJ - The Guardians
AZNRaps: ESTP - The Doers
Bai Ling Blog: ESFP - The Performers
big WOWO: ISTJ - The Duty Fulfillers
Boston Progress Radio: INTJ - The Scientists
ChannelAPA: ESTP - The Doers
Cinematical: ISTP - The Mechanics
CNN Political Ticker: ISTP - The Mechanics
Crave, the gadget blog: ESTJ - The Guardians
Daily Kos: INTP - The Thinkers
Degenerasian: ESTP - The Doers
The Delicious Life: ESTP - The Doers
Desi Hits: ESFP - The Performers
Disgrasian: ESTJ - The Guardians
ESPN NBA Index: ESTP - The Doers
Gawker: ISTP - The Mechanics
Giant Robot: ISTJ - The Duty Fulfillers
GigaOM: INTJ - The Scientists
Google Blog (Official): ESTP - The Doers
The Huffington Post: ISTJ - The Duty Fulfillers
iaTV: ESTP - The Doers
Jauhari: ESTP - The Doers
Jezebel: ISFP The Artists
Just Jared: ESFJ - The Socializers
Lifehacker: ESTJ - The Guardians
LoveHKFilm: ESFP - The Performers
Margaret Cho Blog: ESFP - The Performers
Mashable: ESTJ - The Guardians
The Minority Militant: ISTP - The Mechanics
Nikkei View: ESTP - The Doers
New York Times: ESTP - The Doers
Newsweek: INTP - The Thinkers
The News Whole: ESTP - The Doers
Racewire: INTP - The Thinkers
Racialicious: INTP - The Thinkers
Sepia Mutiny: ENTP - The Visionaries
Stuff Asian People Like: ISTP - The Mechanics
Swampland: ENTJ - The Executives
TechCrunch: ESTJ - The Guardians
Thirteen Minutes: ESTP - The Doers
Twitch: ESTP - The Doers
Variety Asia Online: ENTP - The Visionaries
Zuky: INTP - The Thinkers

The Spread, ANP Video, Obama, Assassination, And The White Supremacist Threat

While it's not a subject you really feel like bringing up - let's face it - we all have some worries about it in the back of our mind, and unfortunately its existence is real (so much in fact the even during the campaign, security was heightened more for Obama than any other candidate).

It just takes one person to slip on through and we haven't come as far as we really think - just take a look at the store owner in Maine who decided to have a sign where people could place bets on when Obama would be assassinated with text that read "Let's hope someone wins".

It was called the "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool".

And In Video

Here's an ANP video on hate groups, Obama, and the perfect storm.



I have to add something here - I wish media - no matter who they are - wouldn't just focus on the black community when it comes to the "jubilation" of Obama being President-elect because in the end, it was also a blow to racism for all people who wanted to see a new day - a new change.

To me it just creates a divide that doesn't need to be there.