AC Transit Bus Fight - YouTuber iyannaw08 talks about video

YouTuber iyannaw08, who filmed the AC Transit Bus Fight video, makes a new video blog to time to clear up some misconceptions in the wake of the video's viral status.

First, she says that she did not take the bag that belonged to the Old White Man. iyannaw08 says that she took the bag to the front of the bus and left it for the authorities when they arrived.

Second, she says was not dating or related to the black man in the video "I've never seen these two gentlemen in my life."

She ends the video by apologizing to anyone who was offended. But what's offensive are some of the comments left on her video page. They call her terrible names and racial slurs, and present the very racist, crazy people I complained about. YouTube should step up efforts to have settings that erase those words all together if the channel manager so desires.

It reenforces a statement I've made that if you want to see just how sick, just how screwed up some people really are, take up the occupation of online community management.

Something else, many, including myself, called the black man in the video "young" - he's 50-years-old.

Stay tuned.

Tiger Woods Press Conference - what Tiger Woods will say

The media and the sports World is abuzz with news of the Tiger Woods Press Conference, but what Tiger Woods is going to say is up in the air. But it's not hard to figure out what Tiger Woods, The World's Greatest Golfer, is going to say at the Tiger Woods Press Conference.

Tiger Woods will remain in his classic stoic affect, explain that he's better after sex therapy, admit that what he did was wrong, explain that he's ready for a return to Golf, and that he's going to focus on the Maters. That's it.

The press can't ask any questions; that's the kicker, according to ESPN. So will Tiger Woods really be totally, well, out of the Woods after the press conference.

No. Tiger Woods needs to get a taste of hard questioning just so he can go through that and then let it pass him and get on with things. But that's not happening Friday.

If you were Tiger Woods, what would you say? Better yet, what do you think Tiger Woods is going to say.

Make a video and share!

Julia Mancuso's sexy photos heat up Women's Downhill in Olympics

While American Lindsey Vonn won Gold in, it's American Julia Mancuso's sexy photos heating up the Women's Downhill in the Winter Olympics.



American Lindsey Vonn became the first female from the U.S.A to win the Women's Downhill Gold Medal.

Vonn beat her teammate Julia Mancuso, who's from the San Francisco Bay Area, by just .56 seconds and on a course that caused several crashes and was as much a test of survival as competitiveness.

But it was Vonn's time to shine. Lindsey Vonn fought back and through the pain of an injured right shin to capture the Olympics' greatest prize.

Lindsey Vonn won the Gold; Mancuso the Silver, and Austrian Elizabeth Goergl got the Bronze medal. But online, it's Julia Mancuso who's getting the Gold in searches.

If there's any sport that prizes the female athlete as diva is skiing (except, perhaps, Tennis).

 In this case, Julia Mancuso's got no problem showing her hot body off before the cameras and on her blog, which is a show case of social networking links, Mancuso-related content, and lingerie.

Yep. Lingerie.

Julia Mancuso's even got her own lingerie line for sale on her blog! It's called "Kiss My Tiara" and at just $15 an item, it's sure to be a hit after Wednesday's Silver Metal success. Here's to Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso for making it happen at the Olympics, on the course, and off.

AC Transit Bus Fight - on racists and crazy people

The AC Transit Bus Fight that was captured on video and made its viral video mark Wednesday is a terrible, sick, and awful statement on American Society in the 21st Century.



The AC Transit Bus Fight features two men - one young and black, the other old and white - who both insult each other and to be frank the video shows the old white man after he went to the back of the AC Transit Bus to antagonize the young black kid. It was wrong for the kid to escalate the discussion, just as it was wrong for the old white man to answer back. It was wrong for the young kid to go and try and fight - to throw a punch. And it was wrong for the old man to hit the kid.

With all of that some observers have proven they're just as much animals as the men in the video. The talk of some is to crown the old white man as some kind of hero, when it's obvious he's some kind of nut job. Some people report the AC Transit Bus Fight as if it's a victory for whites against some boogie man who's black. All of this has become a discussion seemingly dominated by racists and nuts cases. Since racism is a mental illness, it's hard to tell them apart.

The bottom line is both were wrong and if you are picking sides, you're just making it all worse and showing how nutty people around the World can be. It's really sad that we've allowed society to degenerate to this point. To a point where I just seek refuge away from the crazy people and the racists.

President Clinton coming to UC Berkeley, February 24th

According to the Daily Cal, and the The Blum Center for Developing Economies, Former President Bill Clinton will visit U.C. Berkeley. February 24th at 3:30 PM at Zellerbach Auditorium. Tickets for President Clinton's speech are available only online and one has to be either a student at Cal, or a faculty or staff member to obtain them.

So if you're not any of the three, and know someone who is and haven't been nice to them you might consider getting on the phone to apologize to them first (no texting). Then ask for help with the Clinton tickets.

Seriously, their are 2,000 tickets available, 1,200 free for students.

You can get them here: berkeley.edu/clinton.

The title of President Clinton's speech is "Global Citizenship: Turning Good Intentions into Positive Action"

If you're reading the name "Blum Center for Developing Economies" and wondering who "Blum" is, it's Richard Blum, who's married to U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein and is also a person who's a San Francisco developer, financier, and political activist with close ties in the Tibetan community.

I think President Clinton had Blum in mind when he created the speech he's going to give on February 24th.

Here, on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Torch Run and during the San Francisco Protest of it, Richard Blum talks about his work in trying to get the Chinese Government to engage with The Dalai Lama:



Stay tuned.

Doc Gurley - Haiti: Hitting The Ground

Airports are bland portals scattered across the world. It's really when you step outside, walking down the cattle-chute ramp that's lined with well-wishers and people holding up hand-written signs - it's as you emerge, blinking into hot haze and the smell of moist, marinating diesel hits you, that's when you know you're somewhere else.

Our bus is a glorious, battered, curtained-fringed affair. I loved it instantly, its inside dotted with gently exhaling air conditioner vents, and the crack on the windshield buttressed by a large suction cup. We learned right away how grateful we should be for her (how can a bus with swaying fringed drapes NOT be a "her"?), because we didn't even make it out of customs before other aid workers were asking for possible rides to Jimani. We had so many wonderful bags and boxes of medical supplies (Thank you! Thank you! You know who you are), that we had to say sorry and wish the ride-seekers luck.]

A wildly painted bus in Haiti - NOT the one from the airport.

After a red-eye with 4 possible hours of sleep, we each re-folded back into the coach origami position to sit barricaded by boxes and bags, with Jesse, our local coordinator, perched on a cooler in the bus stairwell. And so the 3 hour trip just to reach the outskirts of Santa Domingo began.

It was urban density after urban density, and the kinds of insta-reflex, hair-thin near-misses that make 880 on Friday at 70mph look tame.

The sun set, the houses right against the freeway thinned and it was the kind of headlights-only dark you can't find in the States any more.

We stopped at a shockingly pristine, open-walled "market" for supper. Food was served cafeteria-style. As we left we saw an empty, nearly identical competitor right across the road, advertising Chinese and Creole food.

Mopeds with helmetless riders (and sometimes whole families) darted like mosquitoes around lumbering, gear-griding buses, even as the hour crept to midnight. A massive UN convoy passed when we stopped for fuel, car-carriers loaded with SUVs with UN painted on the sides, a massive flatbed with a mountain of lumber on the back and 3 container trucks, and 2 Security jeeps.

After midnight, in what felt like the middle of nowhere, we stopped at a massive, opulent hotel that was completely deserted - no other cars, no other guests. We slept in beds, showered in cold water and had a quick breakfast served family-style of fried chicken, stewed goat, plantains, eggs and rice. It was two minutes down the road, as we went through the 2 sequential wrought-iron gates that make up the DR and Haiti border (every inch between the gates a market stall, many of them selling bags of relief food), that I discovered that as I had been standing on the sidewalk outside the breakfast restaurant as we loaded our final two members of our group, my iPhone had been pick-pocketed.

My iPhone never made it into Haiti...

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Michael Jordan and Paris Hilton share a birthday

Would you believe that Michael Jordan and Paris Hilton share a birthday today? Yes. On his birthday, Michael Jordan turns 47, whereas Paris Hilton turns 29.

While Michael Jordan is enjoying the great retired life afforded by his amazing NBA Basketball career, Paris Hilton is enjoying a resurgence of sorts, after her celebrated DUI arrest of several years ago. Paris was the inspiration for my classroom simulation game called "Buffi The Gym Girl" where your job is to make Buffy, the fussy , glamorous celebrity, happy...



But "Buffi The Gym Girl" aside, Paris Hilton is the perfect model for anyone who's thinking of developing their personal brand. Paris is known for being famous, knowing the best parties, wearing the latest fashions, and having only the best of everything.

Michael Jordan is known for classy excellence on and now off the basketball court. Hmm.... Michael Jordan 47, and Paris Hilton 29; the perfect age gap.

Happy Birthday to both.