Friday, July 23, 2010

REGGIE’S RANT — Rapper’s foul language mars an otherwise impressive Artscape

Monday, 19 July 2010 18:20

http://www.investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4987:reggies-rant-artscape&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

Editor-in-Chief Regina Holmes

WHAT’S THE POINT OF HAVING TICKETS
IF THEY WON'T LET YOU IN THE DOOR?

By Regina Holmes

I wanted to write a rant on Monday about Artscape but I was still recovering from it. All the walking, the heat; the crowds, the heat; the sore feet, the heat; the overeating, the heat. Not that I'm complaining. I had a great time at Artscape. One of the biggest perks I've found about living in Mount Vernon is having the nation's largest free arts festival unfold around me. I went to multiple events on all three days, popping back home two or three times a day to make a pit stop, refuel and, in some cases, shower and change.

I was very excited about this year's Artscape and I have to say that overall I really enjoyed it. I'm awed by the sheer magnitude of the event; it's obvious an enormous amount of planning has to be done to pull off an affair of this size and scope. I was impressed by the variety of entertainment, food, and artwork, although there could have been a bit more diversity in the entertainment acts. (There were few if any Latino-flavored musical acts, for example, and no such dance performances.) A friend and I noted with humor that a Middle Eastern dance troupe performing at Penn Station was comprised (from what we saw) of all white women. I heard several great jazz bands, including the Craig Alston Quartet, which won the Chick Webb Jazz Combo Competition. I found the crowds to be in good spirits and upbeat; everyone seemed to be having a good time.

My experience was marred somewhat, however, by an incident on Sunday evening on the Wachovia stage, the main one, at Cathedral Street and Mount Royal Avenue.

I was not at the stage at the time; I had just returned home two blocks away around 7 p.m. to grab a quick bite before going to hear Wale at that stage. I wasn't familiar with the D.C.-based hip-hop artist (born of Nigerian-immigrant parents, whose real name is Olubowale Victor Folarin) but several friends had told me about him, so I thought I would check him out. I could hear the music and rapping very clearly from my balcony, which offers a bird's-eye view of the stage.

Suddenly I heard a rapper shouting the chorus: “We only f—k with real n—s!”

LANGUAGE SHOCKS, DISTURBS

Over and over again, he repeated the f-word and the n-word ad infinitum. I was shocked. Now, many rappers do use such language and if a fan chooses to buy a concert ticket or watch a video, that's his or her choice. But in a public venue at a city-sponsored, family-oriented event attended by many young children, blasting such offensive language on a sound system that could be heard blocks away was not only ill-advised but should not be tolerated... http://www.investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4987:reggies-rant-artscape&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Rapper Wale Used Profanity At Artscape

Performer Used Profanity At Artscape

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Anne Kramer

http://www.wbal.com/absolutenm/templates/story.aspx?articleid=55088&zoneid=3

The City Office of Promotion and the Arts looking over its contract with a hip hop artist who used profanity on stage Sunday at the final performance of Artscape.

Wale used the "f" word and the "n" word during his song on the main stage.

Artscape officials say they heard it immediately but they didn't want to make the situation worse by stopping him.

Tracy Baskerville with the Office of Promotion and the Arts tells WBAL Radio that they are deeply disturbed by his words and apologetic to those who found them offensive.

Investigative Voice first reported the artist used those words during his performance.

http://www.wbal.com/absolutenm/templates/story.aspx?articleid=55088&zoneid=3

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About Today: 5 Ways to Cool off Your Laptop

From Jen Hubley, your About Today Editor

I'm pretty sure my laptop is trying to kill me. It is, as my mother used to say, hotter than the hinges outside right now, and yet my portable computer beast insists on trying to melt my skirt to my legs. I think we can all agree that this is unnecessary.

Is Your Laptop Too Hot?

How hot is too hot, though? Exactly when does your toasty laptop go from being the world's most annoying digital heating pad, and become an actual problem?

Why Do Laptops Overheat?

I can never figure out why my laptop gets so hot in the first place. It's not as if there's a tiny printing press in there, minting websites by the dozen.

5 Ways to Make a Hot Laptop Cooler

Before I read this piece, I assumed my only option was to put my laptop on pillow. It turns out, there's plenty you can do to cool it down.

8 Tips for Using Laptops in Hot Weather

The weather outside makes the weather under my laptop seem all the more unbearable. Fortunately, it turns out I don't need those ice-pack pants after all.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces think I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.

An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a..m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, 'I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.

If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys.. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head...

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way..

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them..

***How about recruiting Women over 50 ...in menopause!!! You think Men have attitudes!!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!!
If nothing else, put them on border patrol.... They will have it secured the first night!

Send this to all of your senior friends...it's in big type so they can read it

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From an e-mail

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Rep. Bonner Seeks Cosponsors to Honor the 50th Anniversary of the Publication “To Kill A Mockingbird

Rep. Bonner Seeks Cosponsors to Honor the 50th Anniversary of the Publication “To Kill A Mockingbird”

Washington, Jul 21 - This legislation honors the 50th Anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, a lifelong resident of Monroeville, Alabama, in Mr. Bonner’s congressional district. ‘‘To Kill a Mockingbird’’ is one of the great American novels of the 20th century, having been published in more than 40 languages and having sold over 30 million copies. Mr. Bonner encourages RSC Members to join in cosponsoring H. Res. 1525, along with the Alabama delegation and the bipartisan leadership of the House of Representatives.

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Congressman Tom Price is Chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC).

http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=199582

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FishbowlDC: Time's Scherer Could Impact FNC Getting Helen's Seat (Or Not...)

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Wednesday, Jul 21

TIME'S SCHERER COULD IMPACT FNC GETTING HELEN'S SEAT (OR NOT...)
As most of us know by now, The Daily Caller came out with another Journolist installment this morning -- this one has Time's Michael Scherer opining on Fox News in what could be construed as both positive and negative remarks. What some may not be aware of is that Scherer recently landed a spot on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association. This means he could be in a position to ultimately say...
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A FUNNY EXCHANGE ABOUT THE BACK OF CHUCK TODD'S HEAD
And now for some afternoon humor. On Monday afternoon, NBC's Chuck Todd (co-host of MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown") and CBS News Radio Correspondent Mark Knoller squared off about Todd's head obstructing his shots. Knoller: Finally got @chucktodd to move his head a few degrees so I could get a photo of Obama & Cameron in the East Ro[om] http://twitpic.com/2737bm Knoller: At least I finally got @chucktodd to sit down about 10 minutes into the Obama/Cameron...
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POLITICO'S BEN SMITH INTERVIEWS VANDEHARRIS
Here's a twist: Interview your own editors for a story. Politico's Ben Smith did just that today in a story regarding Journolist - of which he was once a member. The reporter seeking his own editors' comment was fitting as it directly involved Politico. Editor-in-Chief John Harris said he supported Politico reporters such as Smith and Mike Allen being on the List and listening in on the conversation. "I knew you were on it....
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Wednesday, Jul 21

THE JOURNOLIST BLOODBATH CONTINUES; HUFFPOST STRIKES OUT AT DAILY CALLER
Dirt is flying over The Daily Caller's revealing stories on the contents of the Journolist listserv. HuffPost, which has ex-Journolisters in its midst and has employees who have been staunch defenders of the list's privacy (the harshest defenders have included Jason Linkins and Arthur Delaney who have never said they were members of the listserv), is striking back against The Daily Caller, saying it should have disclosed having one of its own on Journolist....
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ROLL CALL'S KURTZ TO E&E, SMITH UPPED
Charlie Mitchell announced just moments ago that Roll Call Managing Editor Josh Kurtz has accepted a new gig as editor of Environment & Energy Daily, E&E's publication that covers Congress. Taking over for Kurtz at Roll Call will be Katie Smith, the pub's current deputy managing editor. Memo from Mitchell below: Folks, I'm sad to announce that Josh Kurtz will soon be leaving us to take over as Editor-in-Chief at E&E Publishing, where he will...
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PBS NEWSHOUR PRODUCER NAMED PRESIDENT OF MACNEIL LEHRER PRODUCTIONS
Simon Marks, associate executive producer of the PBS NewsHour, has been named president of MacNeil Lehrer Productions effective September 1, 2010. Marks will take the position of current MLP President Lester Crystal, who recently announced his retirement. MacNeil Lehrer Productions, a partnership of Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer and Liberty Media produces the PBS NewsHour, and other broadcast and digital journalism....
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Wednesday, Jul 21

MSNBC'S RATIGAN: THAT'S MR. BADASS TO YOU
Who's in charge of MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan's afternoon talk show? Should be pretty obvious considering it's "The Dylan Ratigan Show." But well, it's Ratigan. Damn it. And if you're a journalist appearing on his show, you'd better not forget it. The Washington Examiner's Associate Editor J.P. Freire received the 411 (on who's in charge of Ratigan's show) on Monday afternoon when he appeared opposite WaPo's Jonathan Capehart. The topic was politics, race and...
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SEPARATED AT BIRTH: MEGHAN MCCAIN AND...
Meghan McCain, author of the newly published Dirty Sexy Politics, a Daily Beast columnist, and daughter to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and the recently incarcerated actress, Lindsay Lohan. In news FishbowlDC really didn't want to know that badly, McCain (Meghan, that is) tweeted Monday night: "Yep, I really rode that elephant (for an entire day), wait til you see the back cover picture of my book! We played in the mud together :-)." (h/t...
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NON-PROFIT SEEKS ARTFUL PRESS AND MEDIA RELATIONS MANAGER
Are you passionate about creativity? Here's the perfect gig for you: Americans for the Arts is looking for a press and media relations manager to promote the non-profit's events, activities and products from its D.C. office. You'll be handling handling day-to-day media relations for the organization, including developing stories, pitching and placing content and building relationships with key reporters. You should also brush up on your social media skills as you'll be collaborating with...
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Wednesday, Jul 21

VAN SUSTEREN THE PRANKSTER?
Yesterday we told you about Greta Van Susteren's 'reply all' to a State Department pool report by CNN producer Elise Labott. Greta's email said "this pool report is a lie," referring to the Labott's claim that the pool was "wheels up to Seoul." Claiming her friend at Fox News was just being a prankster, Labott responded to the email chain last night: ----- Original Message ----- From: Labott, Elise To: Sent: Tue Jul 20 19:39:30...
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MORE JOURNOLIST BLEEDING
Things are getting really ugly. The Daily Caller has released the Day 3 (if you include the ex-WaPo Dave Weigel debacle) installment of Journolist e-mails. Today's big hit goes to radio Producer Sarah Spitz who shocked herself with her anger. What would she do if conservative Radio host Rush Limbaugh was having a heart attack? Spitz would "laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out." But there's more. In this installment,...
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GOOD MORNING FISHBOWLDC READERS
Quote(s) of the Day Frisch 'Chillaxes?' "Chillaxing at the #MCvilla in Vegas baby." - Media Matter's contributor Karl Frisch in a Monday tweet that seems about as awkward as watching your parents dance in the living room. Editor diagnoses media with vertigo "This media summer seems so delusional & vertiginous that I believe neither Tennessee Williams nor Terry Southern would have known what 2 do." - The Nation's Editor Katrina vanden Heuval in a Monday...
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NewsBusters - Doocy: Blaming FNC for Sherrod Firing 'A Lie'

Rush Limbaugh Responds to JournoLister Wishing His Death

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has responded to reports that an NPR producer wrote gleefully about his death in an e-mail message to the now infamous JournoList.

As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, the Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong published some more of the liberal group's e-mail messages which included Sarah Spitz claiming that she would "Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out" as Limbaugh writhed in torment.

With this in mind, both the Washington Examiner's Byron York and myself asked Limbaugh for a response to this nonsense.

Blaming Fox for Shirley Sherrod’s Firing 'a Lie,' Fox & Friends Host Declares

On Wednesday’s Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy took strong exception to the NAACP’s claim it was “snookered” by Fox News into denouncing former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod based on excerpts of a speech she delivered at a dinner in March.

“There’s a timeline problem,” Doocy pointed out, noting that the NAACP had on Monday night denounced Sherrod as “shameful,” the same day that she was pressured to quit her job (she says by the White House). But Fox News never mentioned the story until after Sherrod had quit. “So for anybody to say that Fox News pressured her out, that is simply a lie,” Doocy asserted.

NBC's Today Show Inaccurately Blames Fox News for Sherrod Firing

On Wednesday's Today show, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry and Savannah Guthrie left the impression that Fox News's criticism of Shirley Sherrod was the reason she lost her job at the Agriculture Department, with Lauer, in his interview with Sherrod, charging: "I don't know who to blame here, Miss Sherrod. I mean the, the, the activist who put forward this garbage in the first place has an agenda. We shouldn't be surprised by that. The cable news network that, that played this garbage on and on and talked about it, has an agenda. We shouldn't be surprised by that." But Lauer and NBC News, itself, revealed they have their own agenda, by failing to report, as the MRC's Rich Noyes pointed out, that Fox News didn't mention the Sherrod story until she had already left her job.

However, that didn't stop Curry from claiming, in the 8am half hour news brief, that: "After the video was used to vilify her on Fox television, she lost her job," and Guthrie advancing the NAACP's notion, in her piece, that they had been "snookered" by Fox News.

CBS: Financial Reform 'Another Huge Milestone For President Obama'

ABC Skips Label for Liberal Media Matters During Shootout With 'Conservative' Andrew Breitbart

AP Touts Stimulus in German Recovery, Ignores Tax Cuts

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Washington Post Politics News & Analysis: Firing of USDA official now under review

USDA reconsiders job after race remarks

» Video | Amid growing pressure, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the USDA will reconsider its decision to ask an employee to resign over racially tinged remarks she made at an NAACP banquet.

Firing of USDA official now under review; case highlights larger political problems involving race

(By Karen Tumulty and Krissah Thompson)

Senate advances bill to reinstate jobless benefits (By Lori Montgomery)

Senate judiciary panel approves Kagan nomination (By Paul Kane)

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY

• Reid to unveil climate bill
• USDA worker quits over racism charge (video)
• Fox rejects ad that links oil usage to military deaths

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• Former Ga. Gov. Roy Barnes wins Democratic primary; Handel, Deal in runoff
• Change has come to the Fix comments section!

ECONOMIC & DOMESTIC POLICY BY EZRA KLEIN

• Wonkbook: Jobless aid advances; Kagan wins committee vote; energy bill uncertain
• Reconciliation
• Research desk explains: How effective would deficit-neutral stimulus be?

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Limbaugh responds to JournoList death wish report

This morning I asked Rush Limbaugh what he thought of references to him on the private left-wing journalist discussion group JournoList. As reported in the Daily Caller, an NPR producer named Sarah Spitz wrote on JournoList that if she witnessed Limbaugh dying of a heart attack, she would “laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.”

“I never knew I had this much hate in me,” Spitz wrote, according to the Daily Caller account. “But he deserves it.”

So I asked Limbaugh: What do you make of the fact that people in positions of influence on the Left don’t just want to see you fail, don’t just want to see you marginalized, but would actually like to witness you dying a painful death?

“Not having wished anyone dead, nor having fantasized about watching someone die, I cannot possibly relate to this,” Limbaugh responded.

Read he reply here

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/limbaugh-responds-to-journolist-death-wish-report-98917869.html

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/at-washington-post-mums-the-word-on-journolist-98909894.html

At Washington Post, mum’s the word on JournoList

Is there a problem for the Washington Post? Potentially.

Since the paper employs JournoList’s founder and proprietor, and since comments on JournoList led to Weigel’s leaving the paper, and since those events raise questions about whether other Post journalists took part in JournoList, and since there are likely more stories to come from the thousands of still-unpublished exchanges on JournoList, it is reasonable to ask what the Post’s management knows, and what it knew in the past, about Post journalists taking part in the list-serv.

It’s reasonable to ask — but the Post isn’t going to answer.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/at-washington-post-mums-the-word-on-journolist-98909894.html

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A Free Pass for Fannie and Freddie

July 21, 2010

A Free Pass for Fannie and Freddie

Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3874

Last Thursday the Obama Administration’s broad sweeping financial reform legislation edged past its final hurdle when the Senate approved the measure by a vote of 60-39.

The Consumer Protection and Regulatory Enhancement Act (H.R. 3310) is now on its way to the White House and awaits the gleeful left-handed signature of President Barack Obama.

The bill, touted by several news accounts as “ushering in the broadest overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression,” received almost complete opposition from Republicans who voted 38-3 against it. Democrats supported it by a vote of 57-1.

In May, The New York Times quoted Mr. Obama as saying: “The recession we’re emerging from was primarily caused by a lack of responsibility and accountability from Wall Street to Washington. That’s why I made passage of Wall Street reform one of my top priorities as president, so that a crisis like this does not happen again.”

I’m glad to hear the president report that the recession is about to be over... http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3874

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