RIAA's Cary Sherman Talks About How He Is A Tool

RIAA's Cary Sherman says lawsuits were the only option

Cary Sherman offers no apologies and won't for a second concede that filing lawsuits against people who pilfered digital music from artists was ineffective. On the contrary, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America makes a case that chasing file sharers into court was the only option in 2003, during one of the darkest periods in the music industry's history.

"If you can go back to that time in your mind and remember that file sharing was growing at logarithmic pace," Sherman said referring to 2003, not long after file-sharing service Napster had triggered a music-swapping frenzy. "It was unbelievable how much infringement was going on and there was no sense that it was illegal. There were no legal cases or precedent, nothing to discourage people from this kind of behavior."

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Wow! Cary's last party must have been a real dud if he suddenly felt the need to spout off about how he was right when no one gives a crap anymore...he said 2003...2003!...Cary its 2008 ! That was 5 years ago why the hell are you tooting your horn now?

And guess what Cary

The Record Industry testified to the U.S. Government that when the research and development of CD's was paid off from revenues the price of CD's would drop...YOU LIED TO THE U.S.GOVERNMENT.

People go to jail for that...kind of like what you did with those useless, meaningless lawsuits against the very people the Government sought to protect from price gouging...so I guess when you fell through on your promise to lower the price and your former customers found a work around you were probably crapping your designer jeans.

What does a CD cost you to produce, print and package?...about 2 bucks?

What are you charging for the CD?

$17?

$19?

$25?

What cut does the artist get?

5%?

Less?

Since the industry probably has them on a advance pay contract with a multi-album deal and making them in essence indentured servants they usually never are able to pay of the cash advance....they call it pimping in some circles Cary.

Let's continue...everyone else if the whole free world knew that the world wide web would be the new medium of choice for data and music but you failed to notice this..the whole world changed overnight and you were running to catch up...not like you didn't have the chance to take some of your grotesque profits and invest in standards and protection of the new medium, you tried to halt the whole thing through litigation...wow...how much to you get paid to fail to this degree?

Lets go back in time...you can no longer play a whole album on the radio why?..because the record industry litigated that they would lose too much profit from people bootlegging onto tape and not buying the album in the first place...nope that never came to fruition did it? The industry paranoia just limited what your potential customers could enjoy.

Bravo!

Wasn't it your industry that tried to litigate against the phonograph so it would be impossible to record albums to tape in home?...That didn't happen thank God but what damage did it do anyway? None...you still have money coming out your ass from your monopoly on recorded talent.

If you REALLY think you stemmed any kind flow of underground product you should get some smarts...people are just migrating to the unsigned new talent that you failed to woo into your cabal and can be readily found online with.....no record industry involvement...that must really get your panties in a bunch.

Personally since the RIAA starting suing everyone they felt they could, my record buying habits dropped off an astonishing 90% easily.

So where I used to buy 10 records a year I buy about 1 and it's usually from a used CD store so you don't even see that dime...way to go champ.

In closing you better take stock of your situation before you go spouting off about your greatness as a actual worthwhile litigation cause.

The record industry and the RIAA are nothing more than a dead medium overseen by a inept executive body and you don't even have the sense to know it.

The Emperor has no clothes on.



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Congress Says Look At Our Track Record For Guidance

White House gets bailout plan, but negotiations continue

Congressional Democrats sent the White House an emergency $15 billion auto bailout plan Monday, complete with provision of a "car czar" to oversee the industry's reinvention of itself. The Bush administration said there had been progress toward agreement but pressed further negotiations into the night.

The measure would rush bridge loans to Detroit's struggling Big Three but would also demand that the auto industry restructure itself in order to survive and would put an overseer chosen by President George W. Bush in charge of monitoring that effort, according to the draft obtained by The Associated Press.

At first blush, White House officials suggested privately that the draft plan might fall short of principles behind a broad agreement to give long-term financing only to viable companies. But a later statement from press secretary Dana Perino sounded relatively upbeat about the rescue legislation, which congressional leaders hope to approve in the next few days.

"We've made a lot of progress in recent days to develop legislation to help automakers restructure and achieve long-term viability," she said. "We'll continue to work with members on both sides of the aisle to achieve legislation that protects the good faith investment by taxpayers."

Bush himself said it was "hard to tell" if a deal was imminent because definite conditions had to be met. "These are important companies, but on the other hand, we just don't want to put good money after bad," he said in an interview with ABC's "Nightline."

Senate aides said they thought they were rounding up significant Republican support to ensure passage as early as Wednesday while still hammering out the final details.
The bailout bill that gives automakers seven years to repay the loans at a 5 percent interest rate. Automakers will have to get approval from a government administrator for any transaction of $25 million or more and must submit a detailed long-term restructuring plan by March 31, which must be approved by the White House's designee.

Automakers accepting loans are barred by law from having corporate airplanes.
The government will get stock warrants worth 20 percent of the value of the government loans.

They are also prohibited from taking part in lawsuits against states who are seeking to impose their own vehicle emissions standards.

Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Congress was committed to getting emergency aid to automakers, but said General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler LLC were teetering on the brink largely "through their own ineptitude."
Still, he said "Congress is trying to save Detroit."

Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., a chief Republican ally of the automakers, said on the Senate floor that: "I share and understand the bailout fatigue" of many Americans. "Doing nothing for the auto industry means allowing them to go into bankruptcy."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said negotiations were continuing with the White House, and lawmakers were hoping to create an auto industry that could thrive on its own -- an effort she said would require concessions from management, labor, creditors and others.

"We call this a barbershop. Everybody's getting a haircut," Pelosi said.
Earlier Monday, the White House and a top Democratic lawmaker said they were likely to strike a deal quickly on the multibillion-dollar bailout, which places strict restrictions on the automakers while they're receiving the loans and mandates that the government overseer keep close tabs on their efforts to restructure.

The emergency loans would be drawn from an existing program meant to help the automakers build fuel-efficient vehicles.

Among the requirements included the draft proposal is one that the carmakers getting federal help get rid of their corporate jets -- which became a potent symbol of the industry's ineptitude when the Big Three CEOs used them for their initial trips to Washington to plead before Congress for government aid.

The proposal also would give the overseer -- a kind of "car czar" -- say-so over any major business decisions by the automakers while they're taking advantage of federal aid. The companies would have to open their books to the government, including informing the overseer of any transaction of $25 million or more and any "material change" in their financial condition.

Under the plan, the carmakers could get emergency loans right away. Then the overseer would write guidelines, due on the first of the year, for restructuring the Big Three automakers.

In testimony before Congress last week, General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, which have said they are weeks from collapse, made it clear they would need a total of $14 billion to $15 billion to survive through early 2009. Ford Motor Co. has said it has enough money to stay afloat unless one of the other Big Three goes under or the economy deteriorates more sharply.

While the measure would put an administration official selected by Bush in charge of setting terms for restructuring, the decision about whether the terms were being met would not be made until President-elect Barack Obama had been sworn in. Congressional Democrats and the White House were working to find a broadly supported candidate who could span the two administrations.

Congressional officials said Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who oversaw the federal Sept. 11 victims' compensation fund, was under consideration for the position.
Asked if a deal could be struck for a vote as early as Monday, White House spokeswoman Perino said, "I think it's very likely." That was before the Democrats sent their draft.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the Financial Services Committee chairman, said that he, too, expected a deal by the end of the day and enactment by week's end.
In the latest gauge of public opinion, people were split about evenly over providing federal money to keep the car companies functioning.

Forty-five percent approved and 44 percent were opposed, according to a CBS News poll released Monday. Nearly six in 10 Democrats favored the aid, while nearly the same share of Republicans opposed it.

About seven in 10 said the government should have a say in managing the companies if taxpayers provide assistance, and nearly as many said requiring more alternative fuel vehicles should be a condition of such aid. Fifty-six percent blamed management for the companies' problems, double the number who blamed uncontrollable economic problems.

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Washington must be a giant ass magnet because thats all that ends up there.

They give the finance industry 700 billion to help out their bro's in the finance business that technically neither manufactures nor produces anything but paperwork for profit but when an group of actual manufacturers that produce a product and provide employment for untold masses directly and indirectly asks for a bridge loan to get by...congress gets out the bdsm gear and demands "pony-time" from the executives..frankly demeaning them publicly like stern headmasters.

What The F#@* ?

These asswipes DEMAND performance and plans of actions from the auto industry but can't even balance the damn budget...HELLO? CONGRESS?...your 10 trillion in debt you f-wads!

If ANYONE deserves a stern dressing down if not flat out tried for ineptness it's congress.

Is this dog and pony show so we will forget you approved us into two wars, approved the economy into debt by deregulation, approved of flawed trade international aggreements, approved of laws that favored corporations and limited the power of the individual?

Is that why you pout and finger point and yell and glower with such determination?...that we might forget that it was you that brought us to this.

ARGH!

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George Bush Declares Self Retarded

Bush Weighs In on His Legacy

As the clock ticks down on his days in the White House, President George W. Bush is taking part in one of his last presidential rituals — helping to shape the perception of his years in office.

In an interview conducted earlier this month by his sister, Doro Bush Koch, Mr. Bush said he wanted to be remembered “as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process.”

“I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values,” Mr. Bush said. “And I darn sure wasn’t going to sacrifice those values; that I was a President that had to make tough choices and was willing to make them. I surrounded myself with good people. I carefully considered the advice of smart, capable people and made tough decisions.”

In excerpts of the interview released by the White House, Mr. Bush did not explicitly mention the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or the war in Iraq, which many would consider to be the defining moments of his presidency.

But he said he wanted to be known “as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace; that focused on individuals rather than process; that rallied people to serve their neighbor; that led an effort to help relieve HIV/AIDS and malaria on places like the continent of Africa; that helped elderly people get prescription drugs and Medicare as a part of the basic package; that came to Washington, D.C., with a set of political statements and worked as hard as I possibly could to do what I told the American people I would do.”

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Mr. Bush said he wanted to be remembered “as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process.”

He would have had a soul to sell in the first place...he wanted to be remembered as? 

Well since we're on the "wish train" I want to be remembered as a stud who made all his bitches happy and all warm and fuzzy on the inside but that ain't gonna happen either...

“I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values,” Mr. Bush said.

My mama always said..stupid is as stupid does...

On a side note I like how the NY times called him Mr.Bush instead of President...they must hate him pretty bad at the times.

he wanted to be known “as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace

Liberated? He can't be serious...heck liberate me from work and paying taxes too then. Judging by the economy maybe he is trying to.

Baby Bush did just about everything a man could to make Iraq and Afghanistan the 51st and 52nd states...he found out the hard way that you can't instill democracy at the end of a gun.

Democracy grows of it's own volition or it doesn't grow at all...you can't force it on anyone, it just doesn't work that way.

that helped elderly people get prescription drugs

HA HA HA HA...ahhhh this guy kills me..this man probably did more to ensure you pay the western hemisphere's highest drug cost in the free world while at the same time guaranteeing that drug companies makes trillions of dollars off your ill health for decades to come....elderly prescription drugs... hee hee hee what a scamp he is.

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PS- I friggin' LOVE his sister's name...Doro Bush Koch

Seriously, Koch and Bush?

What do your wedding announcements look like in the Kennebunkport herald?

Bush and Koch to merge...over and over...all  night long

What the hell is Doro?

Did she like rob from the rich and give to the less rich while leaving her D mark of Doro everywhere?

Imagine sexy pillow talk with that moniker

...oh Doro you sexy dirty girl...oh Doro Doro Doro....I'm done, good night.

Man I could go for years off that name.

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Big 3 Threatens To Take Ball And Go Home

Democrats to automakers: Prove you can repay $25 billion

Democratic leaders in Congress called on Detroit's automakers Friday to submit "credible" financial plans to lawmakers by Dec. 2 for spending up to $25 billion in government money, including vows for "significant sacrifices" by top executives.
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A letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., came just hours before the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site that General Motors Corp.'s board of directors had put an eventual bankruptcy filing into its range of options.

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The Journal, citing unnamed sources, said the board was willing to consider "all options" for GM, which has said it could be near the minimum amount of cash it needs to operate by the end of the year. The story said the board's position on a potential filing put it in "rare disagreement with Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner."

Wagoner had told Congress this week that bankruptcy is not practical for the company because people wouldn't buy vehicles from a bankrupt company.

"I am very optimistic and hopeful that they have gotten the message that they just can't come and say, 'Give us this,' " Pelosi said Friday. "How do we tell the American taxpayer it was worthwhile to put this in not as a life support for a few more months and then they are back again, but as an investment in their viability?"

According to the letter, automakers will have to explain their financial position, how they plan to spend the money and the assumptions behind their assurances that any loan will be paid back. General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC consumed nearly $18 billion in cash last quarter, and analysts have said GM and Chrysler could run short of cash by the end of the year.

The terms for any loan are to mirror the conditions set in a draft bill released by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., earlier this week. Among them: The government debt takes precedence among the company's other loans; automakers have to provide warrants or stock to the government, and if the automaker's plan appears off track, the government can call its loan back immediately. Automakers also must promise to meet the fuel economy standards set in last year's energy bill.

And Congress promises to limit executive pay, bonuses and other benefits of top executives, who were roundly criticized after flying corporate jets to two days of hearings this week and providing what many lawmakers called stilted, incomplete answers.

Reid and Pelosi shut down a last-minute attempt at a compromise rescue Thursday, saying there were not enough votes in either side of Congress to pass a bill backed by Michigan's Democratic senators and key Republicans. That bill would have taken $25 billion in loans for building more efficient vehicles that Congress approved in September and lent it to the automakers immediately, an approach backed by the Bush administration.

Pelosi again suggested Friday that the Bush administration had the power to help the industry without Congress acting by using money from the $700-billion financial industry bailout. She also suggested that the automakers' finance arms could have access to an additional $25 billion under that program. And she promised not to use the $25 billion approved for retooling plants as a short-term lifesaver for the industry.

"It is like taking your kids' college education fund and spending it on your credit card bills," she said.

All Detroit automakers have committed to sharing their plans with Congress, but were seeking more guidance about how much detail they would need to share.

It was still not clear Friday whether lawmakers would question the basic business assumptions made by the automakers -- who have said they don't expect U.S. sales to rebound until 2010 at the earliest. Several analysts have warned that without steep cuts, Detroit automakers would continue burning through cash even when the economy revived.

Pelosi made clear Friday that she wanted proof the automakers were making progress on building fuel-efficient models, not just slashing costs to survive the roughest period in their history and using taxpayer dollars to bail water from a sinking boat.

"Their viability is not just about tightening the belt, which is important; it is about a decision to compete and to innovate," she said, adding, "The behavior of the past generation in terms of Detroit has not produced the preeminence that we would like to see."

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GM, which has said it could be near the minimum amount of cash it needs to operate by the end of the year.

Idle threats my friends, I could probably name 100 ways for them to save money immediately and I don't even work there. I am betting you could as well.

Wagoner had told Congress this week that bankruptcy is not practical for the company because people wouldn't buy vehicles from a bankrupt company.

Uh hello dumb ass...no one is buying your vehicles because you laid them all off, no one has a job to buy your crappy line of junk and the ones that do have jobs are now so overburdened by taxation they won't be buying anything for a decade either...what a tool.

"I am very optimistic and hopeful that they have gotten the message that they just can't come and say, 'Give us this,' " Pelosi said Friday. "How do we tell the American taxpayer it was worthwhile to put this in not as a life support for a few more months and then they are back again, but as an investment in their viability?"

Wake up call Nancy Pelosi, your head is in the sand...you just gave 700 billion to the investment industry...these jackasses are only asking for 25 billion and you make them do the whole dog and pony show...where the hell was your smart mouth when the finance industry asked and received without question? Getting your hair done or something...what a tool.

provide warrants or stock to the government,

How about make the executives give the taxpayer their Class A stock option packages? That worthless public stock the government wants is just that...worthless.

Automakers also must promise to meet the fuel economy standards set in last year's energy bill.

Puleeze! There has been mpg legislation for decades. The automotive industry just ignores it. Period.

And Congress promises to limit executive pay, bonuses and other benefits of top executives, who were roundly criticized after flying corporate jets to two days of hearings this week

If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black I don't know what is. Congressmen and Senators get so many perks for their "public service" it isn't even funny...the fact the the auto execs flew their jets in just shows how out of touch with the reality of regular people they are.

Pelosi again suggested Friday that the Bush administration had the power to help the industry without Congress acting by using money from the $700-billion financial industry bailout.

Jesus Christ! Why is everyone throwing around our money like this? I don't want to bail out the finance industry OR the automotive industry and Nancy here is saying why didn't you ask Daddy first?

All Detroit automakers have committed to sharing their plans with Congress, but were seeking more guidance about how much detail they would need to share.

This is just a smoke screen. They don't want to be answerable at all to the Government. By asking for more detail from the government you might as well throw the whole request into legislation hell.

It will take the government a decade for them to decide they want the reports in 10 pt font and not 12, let alone what content they want.

It was still not clear Friday whether lawmakers would question the basic business assumptions made by the automakers -- who have said they don't expect U.S. sales to rebound until 2010 at the earliest. Several analysts have warned that without steep cuts, Detroit automakers would continue burning through cash even when the economy revived.

If they are "burning through cash" shouldn't they then fail? I mean if you or I "burn through cash" and don't pay our bills what happens?

Everyone is terrified of the auto industry failing, I say let it fail. Yes it would be a bitter pill to swallow but it would put us on the road to recovery quicker than having it happen anyway over the next two decades in chunks of 25 million a pop.

I guarantee you this...this will NOT be the last time the auto industry asks for money if you give it to them now and I would say the same for the financial infrastructure institutions...shit they are already saying the financial institutions will need more than the 700 million and they haven't even received on it yet.

"Their viability is not just about tightening the belt, which is important; it is about a decision to compete and to innovate," she said, adding, "The behavior of the past generation in terms of Detroit has not produced the preeminence that we would like to see."

Again..then let them fail.

Business 101 says if they cannot compete and fail to innovate then they fail.


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Nathaniel Abraham Pleads Guilty To Being A Tool

Nathaniel Abraham pleads guilty to drug charges, will head back to jail

Nathaniel Abraham this morning pleaded guilty to drug possession with intent to sell and will likely spend more than two years in prison.

Abraham, 22, was before Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Daniel O’Brien. Under state sentencing guidelines, Abraham faces between 24 months and 40 months when he is sentenced Dec. 22. His attorney, Byron Pitts, said the judge is considering sentencing Abraham in the middle of the range.

Pitts said he and Abraham had discussed taking the matter to trial, but that Abraham chose to plead guilty instead.

Abraham made international headlines in 1999 when he was convicted as an adult of second-degree murder. He was 11 when he shot and killed Ronnie Greene Jr. outside a Pontiac party store. Despite the adult conviction, he was sentenced as a juvenile and remained in juvenile detention until he was released on his 21st birthday in January 2007.

Pontiac police arrested him in May after seeing what they thought was a drug exchange. They discovered dozens of ecstasy pills in the trunk of his car.

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Nature or nurture?

Who knows? Who cares?

This waste of space will be back on the streets shortly because that's how Detroit handles dangerous criminals.

You remember Nathaniel don't you? 

He is the animal that murdered another human being by age 11.

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Bush Administration Backs Away From The Game

The Bush administration on Wednesday largely abandoned its plan to buy up toxic mortgage assets and said it will focus its $700 billion financial bailout fund on making direct investments in financial institutions and shoring up consumer credit markets.

The U.S. Treasury Department initially promoted the financial rescue package approved by Congress last month as a vehicle to buy illiquid mortgage assets from banks and other institutions to spur fresh lending.

However, that plan never got off the ground and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told a news conference asset purchases were not the most effective use of the funds.

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And there you have it folks...all wrapped up in a tidy little blurb.

The Bush administration cannot act because it doesn't know what to act on.

The Bush administration is like a fireman with a bladder problem trying to pee on a campground full of small fires all the while a forest fire is ringing him in.

Thank God we currently aren't under enemy attack...the lightning response even forth graders know we need so badly for the national economy is a "work in progress" as far as this administration is concerned.

Why should we expect more though really?

This is why they buried us in debt and are now on they're way out as possibly the most reviled American administration in history.

It's not anything anyone did to them...it's what the did to themselves or rather what they could never do....govern intelligently or responsibly.

Goodbye Mr. Bush...history will indeed vindicate you...but why wait?...just ask people what they think of you right now.


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What Happened?

Well it's been a while but I have been working for "the man".

Thinking back on what happened to this country in my lifetime and further into my parents.

I was born in the mid 60's to a single income Anglo family in the Midwest.

According to my now deceased father, work was easy to come by in the 60's.

By his own accounts to me, if you didn't like your job, you quit and walked down the street to another decent job.

Now you might be a garbage man or a plumber or a assembly line worker but the fact of the matter is you could get a good, stable, secure job that rewarded longevity and responsibility.

Fast forward...my parents had three children total and managed their whole careers to have a single income family in the 80's as we, the children matured into the workforce.

The 80's.

I found numerous great jobs, sure with some connections but frankly they were jobs with a future..something real to keep for experience.

Engineering, Design, Computers....etc.

Careers with potential in other words...no McDonald's or fast food otherwise involved.

The middle class still had the fighting chance then...but it was going fast and no one seemed to care for much other than their own well being...after all it was the 80's

Fast forward to 2000's....jobs are scarce and if you do find work, chances are you have a middle man or contract house taking half of your effort in pay from you.

Employers have little to no intention of ever hiring you because...frankly...in terms of health insurance and pension your a liability waiting to happen.

Contract houses want you because they will take the health and liability risk for say 45% profit on your labor with their only responsibility being to process your paycheck and paperwork....easy beans for maybe 20-30-40- thousand a year on your effort.

The middle class is slowly destroyed by the machine and if you ask anyone who knows anything about American economics...destroy the middle class and you might as well destroy America by atomic bomb.

No seriously...we went from a single income structure to a dual or plural income structure of family units in the country virtually overnight...one generation...way to pump up that gross national product...feel it paying off?....better off than your grand parents were for the return on effort?

Ask your grandma and grandpa what they think of how things work now...most of your labor goes for national infrastructure or as I like to call it "payola for rich f#cks who can't even run a business and need a bailout because we went to the skull and bones society and frankly are better than the little people."

Thanks to the last 8 years of republican rule we each owe , yes each , man woman AND child owe $40,000 each to national debt....WTF is your kid waiting on?

Tell then to get a paper route or something they have some debt to pay off.....f-ing free loaders!

I mean c'mon how old is your kid anyway?...get a f-ing job already!

Some bombs cost $10,000 or more so your life is worth about 4 bombs now....still going to back republicans?

I met a republican today at work...he was great...the nicest man...from a totally different era...but he was great.

I know why too.

He wasn't mad, he wasn't vindictive, he was funny, he was light hearted....he was an American.

Americans have one thing in common, we ALL have the best intentions for our country at heart.

We may be right or wrong about how to do it but we ALL CARE.

We ALL LOVE OUR country.

So as I heard from Barack Obama and as I understand it he heard from a republican..........never doubt the motive of your political opponent.

You may be right, they may be wrong, or vice versa...but the intention to help is there, not hurt.......that is what being American is.

You may not agree with your brother or sister but they are your bother and sister...therefore your allies....always.

So are we better off?

No.

We are far, far worse that those before us...it's a simple truth...deal with it.

BUT...

We are Americans...let's make this work...I want your kids to be able to quit a crappy job and walk down the street to get another job...a better job.

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Sarah Palin Opens Her Cake Hole To The Masses

Halloween rallies with Palin, McCain

Sarah Palin painted Barack Obama as a pretty scary creature for Halloween: a tax-and-spend liberal whose policies would devastate the nation.

"If you believe that America is the land of possibility and you don't want your dreams dashed by the Obama tax plan increases, then, Pennsylvania, we're asking for your vote," she told supporters in a chilly airport hangar in Latrobe, Pa.

The day's schedule reflects Pennsylvania's importance in Tuesday's election. Its 21 electoral votes are viewed as vital to the GOP.

The vice presidential nominee invoked "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, who after meeting Obama in Toledo, Ohio, questioned whether the Democrat's statement that he would like to "spread the wealth" amounted to socialism.

"They do that in other countries where the people are not free and where work ethic is not rewarded and where an entrepreneurial spirit is stifled," Palin said.

With the official Halloween politicking over, Palin took her daughter Piper trick-or-treating in Dauphin. Piper dressed as a snow princess. On the campaign plane and at a rally, Palin's infant son, Trig, was costumed as an elephant.

Outside the Nationwide Arena, at least eight costumed couples greeted people streaming out of McCain's rally. Each couple wore one McCain mask and one George W. Bush mask, and they held signs proclaiming, "Nightmare on Main Street: More of the same."

Some McCain supporters walking to their cars were startled to see a video projected onto a large beige wall across the street from the arena. It featured the famous Bush-McCain hug from 2004 and ominously proclaimed, "In a state devastated by George Bush, one man stands alone . . . The jobs terminator."

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Sarah Palin painted Barack Obama as a pretty scary creature for Halloween: a tax-and-spend liberal whose policies would devastate the nation.

Seriously Sarah, your party just threw $700 million of my money at the mortgage industry when Republican policies devastated the country and you think Democrats are a threat?

The day's schedule reflects Pennsylvania's importance in Tuesday's election. Its 21 electoral votes are viewed as vital to the GOP.

Vital, critical and paramount might be more like it.

The vice presidential nominee invoked "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher.

Good God please....if you think your tapping into some kind of everyman with Joe Wurzelbacher than your more out of touch than I thought you were.

"They do that in other countries where the people are not free and where work ethic is not rewarded and where an entrepreneurial spirit is stifled," Palin said. 

Is she talking about America? Sound like she is.  

Sarah sweetheart... 2% of the U.S. population currently have 30% of the wealth in this country...how entrepreneurial does the middle class have to be to get some of that back?

The middle class is rapidly becoming the working poor already...30 years ago most homes had a single income as plenty to get by, now most have dual income and can barely get by...oh I forgot we are talking about the lower 48, which you as an Alaskan, generally do not consider yourself to be part of.

With the official Halloween politicking over, Palin took her daughter Piper trick-or-treating in Dauphin. Piper dressed as a snow princess. On the campaign plane and at a rally, Palin's infant son, Trig, was costumed as an elephant. 

Wheres Bristol? Showing too much?

Outside the Nationwide Arena, at least eight costumed couples greeted people streaming out of McCain's rally. Each couple wore one McCain mask and one George W. Bush mask, and they held signs proclaiming, "Nightmare on Main Street: More of the same." 

Some McCain supporters walking to their cars were startled to see a video projected onto a large beige wall across the street from the arena. It featured the famous Bush-McCain hug from 2004 and ominously proclaimed, "In a state devastated by George Bush, one man stands alone . . . The jobs terminator." 

If your policies are so reviled by the general public at large you get people motivated enough to leave their homes and protest like this you should be taking stock in your policies.

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Remember When...

Remember when when you used to pay your bills they included a prepaid postage stamped envelope?

Not since they discovered it cost them 37 cents to take my $532.02 medical payment and another 37 cents to take my $1010.21 house payment....it kinda pisses me off.

Really? you need that 37 cents form my 5 or 10 hundy?

Just what level of hell do you plan on spending eternity?

Insurance and mortgage companies are tools....that is about it.



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Dianne Wilkerson Vs.The White Devil Keeping Her Down

Mass. Pol Accused of Stuffing Bra With Bribes
State Senator Charged With Taking $23,000 in Bribes in Sting Operation

An embattled Massachusetts state senator appeared in a federal courtroom today charged with taking $23,500 in bribes, including cash that she stuffed into her bra during a meeting at a tony Boston restaurant that was secretly videotaped by an undercover FBI agent, federal prosecutors said.

This still image (above) made from video, which was included in an affidavit filed by the FBI in federal...

Democratic state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson faces 40 years in prison after federal prosecutors outlined accusations that she accepted the bribes over an 18-month period in a money-for-legislative influence sting operation, prosecutors said. She had $6,000 in cash in her purse when she was arrested at her Roxbury home by nearly two dozen law enforcement officials, prosecutors said.

Photographs released by U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan showed Wilkerson stuffing 10 $100 bills into her bra at No. 9 Park restaurant last June. During another meeting with an undercover FBI agent two months later, Wilkerson took her granddaughter to accept a $1,000 kickback at the Fill-A-Buster restaurant, a famed political hotspot directly across the street from the Massachusetts State House, according to a 32-page affidavit filed in the case.

A federal complaint charges that Wilkerson accepted eight bribes totaling $23,500 over an 18-month period in exchange for her influence on Beacon Hill. Undercover agents posed as a property developer who wanted to build on state land, and another worked Wilkerson as a potential barroom owner willing to pay for a liquor license.

"She has a long history of acting as if she was above the law,'' said Assistant U.S. Attorney John McNeil during Wilkerson's initial appearance in court.

Wilkerson's attorney Max Stern insisted that his client was innocent. He also accused McNeil of trying to "character assassinate" Wilkerson by bringing up her past problems with the Massachusetts attorney general and campaign finance officials.

Wilkerson -– the state's only black state senator –- is a convicted tax cheat and a campaign finance scofflaw who has a long litany of legal problems that has marred her 15-year record as a lawmaker.

Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Bar began proceedings to disbar Wilkerson, an attorney, after an investigation determined that she lied and perjured herself while testifying in a Superior Courtroom on behalf of her nephew, a convicted murderer who was seeking a new trial.

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And the democrats fail us as well.

Wilkerson -– the state's only black state senator –- is a convicted tax cheat and a campaign finance scofflaw who has a long litany of legal problems that has marred her 15-year record as a lawmaker.

I guess Wilkerson is Massachusetts' version of Kwami Kilpatrick....I thought Michigan was screwed, Wilkerson appears to have been doing a donkey punch on Massachusetts for a long time.

Greed gets them all, no matter the political affiliation.

Well I posted this one for the republicans out there who may feel I am picking on them exclusively...I ain't.

I still luv ya.

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Kwami Kilpatrick Vs. Everyone

Kilpatrick in jail

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is now in jail, the first of 120 days for lying to "protect your political career," a judge said as he upbraided Kilpatrick for acting with "hubris and privilege."

Wayne Circuit Court Judge David Groner chastised Kilpatrick -- who often shook his head in apparent disagreement -- during a terse monologue. Groner declared that Kilpatrick knowingly lied about his romantic relationship with his former chief of staff and cost the city millions of dollars in the process.

"At a time when this city needed transparency, accountability and responsibility, you exhibited hubris and privilege at the expense of the city," Groner said.

Minutes of Groner's pronouncement, Kilpatrick left the courtroom, handed his wedding ring to his wife, Carlita, and headed for the Wayne County Jail, where he was given a jumpsuit and had his picture taken.

During a long and often contentious hearing, Groner was declarative in his finding: Kilpatrick knowingly lied during his testimony during the whistle-blower lawsuit brought -- and won -- by two former police officers.

"These lies were to cover up your wrongful dismissal of (two) police officers," Groner said. The result cost the city the $8.5 million it paid to the officers.

The sentencing ends nine months of revelations and admissions about and from the former mayor.

All told, Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two counts of felony obstruction of justice in a deal that calls for 120 days in jail, payment to the city of $1 million in restitution and five years on probation during which he can't run for office.

 The sentence includes Kilpatrick's punishment for his no-contest plea to the assault of two investigators who tried to serve a subpoena on a friend at his sister's home. That charge was brought by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox.

During the at-times testy hearing, attorneys and prosecutors exchanged charges, with Kilpatrick's team claiming that calls for additional penalties amounted to "piling on" and that Kilpatrick was being treated unlike other defendants.

That charge drew an emotional response from assistant prosecutor Robert Moran, who seethed his response, claiming that Kilpatrick had "held the city hostage for six months," denying the charges until he finally pleaded guilty in September, and only after Gov. Jennifer Granholm began a historic hearing on his removal.

"We don't need public servants who lie," Moran said, and who treat the community "as their own playground."

Afterward, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said she was satisfied with the decision.
In the end, Groner agreed to the four-month term initially set during plea negotiations. He also rejected calls for an additional $22,186 bill prosecutors sought, as well as a call for an anger management class for his confrontation with two court officers trying to serve a subpoena.
Groner said Kilpatrick "snapped" that day, but that there was no evidence of a pattern of angry behavior.

During the hearing, letters from prosecution investigators were read, portraying the former mayor as an out-of-control, intimidating bully who put their lives in danger.

Doug Baker, an attorney for Cox, read letters from Brian White and JoAnn Kinney, claiming they feared for their lives during a confrontation with Kilpatrick while they tried to serve a subpoena. Kilpatrick pleaded no contest to assaulting a court officer as part of a Sept. 4 plea deal.

Kinney wrote that the event "remains etched" in her mind forever. The former Detroit Police officer said the July 24 incident with Kilpatrick was the most dangerous of her career. Kilpatrick was accused of shouting obscenities at the officers and pushing White into Kinney as they attempted to serve a subpoena.

"I have never felt so helpless or unable to protect myself," Kinney wrote. She added that the then-mayor's bodyguards were with him during the incident at his sister's house and she worried she would get shot.

"Kilpatrick is more dangerous and frightening than any criminal I have ever encountered."
The statements were met with incredulity from Kilpatrick's supporters and his lawyers. 

Kilpatrick's attorney, Gerald Evelyn, equated them to "piling on." Leaving the courtroom, Kilpatrick's uncle, Marvel Cheeks, accused both investigators of lying.

"There is no way in the world Kwame Kilpatrick could be the most dangerous criminal they've ever encountered in their lives," Cheeks said. "I think they are saying it out of anger, revenge. They're trying to make it as bad as possible.

"They're trying to hang him. This to me is no different than the lynchings of the 1950s and 1960s. There is no justice. There should be no peace."

The hearing occasionally grew testy, as Kilpatrick's lawyers said they spent a long time agreeing to a deal, then had new penalties imposed today. At one point, Groner admonished a Kilpatrick attorney for talking too long, telling him he wanted to wrap-up the hearing.

Former city general counsel Sharon McPhail, who represented the mayor during Gov. Jennifer Granholm's ouster hearing, left the meeting and said she would have liked to have had an opportunity to address the court.

As she left the private meeting, she called the four-month jail term "overkill."

"Here's a guy with no criminal background going to jail. There are people who have killed people out on the streets," McPhail said after she left a meeting between Kilpatrick's attorneys and prosecutors. "Whatever that was done, hasn't he already paid a big price? Do we need to stomp and grind him into the ground?"

She left the hearing hours later in disgust, saying "I just don't know what's going on in there."
But she added: "I think we're all glad this chapter is over. I think dragging it out like this doesn't do anything for anybody."

After the sentencing, attorney Evelyn said that "under the circumstances, I'm convinced this is the best deal that could be achieved."

"Would I have liked a better deal for him? Absolutely. Do I feel like he deserved a better deal? Absolutely," Evelyn said. "But I wasn't the only one making the decision."
Another defense attorney, Todd Flood, was more blunt: "I don't think there were any winners today."

By about 5:30 p.m., Kilpatrick had left the courtroom and prepared to be processed at the jail. He's expected to be processed and given a used green jumpsuit with "Wayne County Jail" stenciled in the back.

Because the hearing dragged on so long, Kilpatrick will likely miss dinner. The jail was serving beef pot pie and Jell-O.

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First off Thank You Wayne Circuit Court Judge David Groner for saying what no one else in all of Michigan had the balls to say.

"At a time when this city needed transparency, accountability and responsibility, you exhibited hubris and privilege at the expense of the city," Groner said.

Oh man this judge is right on the mark.

Minutes of Groner's pronouncement, Kilpatrick left the courtroom, handed his wedding ring to his wife, Carlita, and headed for the Wayne County Jail, where he was given a jumpsuit and had his picture taken.

What kind of woman puts up with this crap? I mean really?

Was Carlita grown on a government farm or what? 

Every woman I know is strong...strong enough to kick a guy's ass up and down the Detroit River if he tried anything approaching HALF of what King Kwami pulled.

Carlita...get some self respect...please.

During the at-times testy hearing, attorneys and prosecutors exchanged charges, with Kilpatrick's team claiming that calls for additional penalties amounted to "piling on" and that Kilpatrick was being treated unlike other defendants.

This is why defense attorneys are basically pieces of shit from Satan's anus...they will let lie after lie after lie fly from they're mouths like sonic diarrhea for a buck...I couldn't lie like that and face myself in the mirror....but they can.

That charge drew an emotional response from assistant prosecutor Robert Moran, who seethed his response, claiming that Kilpatrick had "held the city hostage for six months," denying the charges until he finally pleaded guilty in September, and only after Gov. Jennifer Granholmbegan a historic hearing on his removal.

"We don't need public servants who lie," Moran said, and who treat the community "as their own playground."

And Thank You Robert Moran, I will buy you a beer anytime.

Doug Baker, an attorney for Cox, read letters from Brian White and JoAnn Kinney, claiming they feared for their lives during a confrontation with Kilpatrick while they tried to serve a subpoena.Kilpatrick pleaded no contest to assaulting a court officer as part of a Sept. 4 plea deal.

Kinney wrote that the event "remains etched" in her mind forever. The former Detroit Police officer said the July 24 incident with Kilpatrick was the most dangerous of her career. 

Kilpatrick was accused of shouting obscenities at the officers and pushing White into Kinney as they attempted to serve a subpoena.

"I have never felt so helpless or unable to protect myself," Kinney wrote. She added that the then-mayor's bodyguards were with him during the incident at his sister's house and she worried she would get shot.

Did you read that part Carlita? Your husband, yeah the one with multiple mistresses...he scared a female cop so bad she says it will forever be in her mind....nice catch you got there.

What kind of man bulldogs a woman like that?

What a f-ing bully...is that what you learned from Mama Kwami?

Kilpatrick's attorney, Gerald Evelyn, equated them to "piling on." Leaving the courtroom,Kilpatrick's uncle, Marvel Cheeks, accused both investigators of lying.

I guess that's the same thing many people said about the two distinguished policemen Kwami fired isn't it?...The rank apple doesn't ever fall far from the rotting tree does it folks?

Former city general counsel Sharon McPhail, who represented the mayor during Gov. Jennifer Granholm's ouster hearing, left the meeting and said she would have liked to have had an opportunity to address the court.

As she left the private meeting, she called the four-month jail term "overkill."

Woman please...you were they hoping to get a photo op and 120 days won't kill Kwami...in fact it's insufficient in most people's opinion...but then again your Kwami's main promo puppet aren't you?

This is what you tried so hard in your life for? To defend a adulterous, perjures liar?

Rethink your life Sharon....you and Carlita should start a support group or something.

FINALLY...this is over...until 5 years from now when Kwami runs again for mayor...I bet he wins too...because Detroiters are just plain stupid.

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Barack Obama Vs. The Incest Twins

Arrests in Plan to Kill Obama and Black Schoolchildren

Two young men who are believers in “white power” have been arrested and charged in Tennessee in what federal officials described as a plan to assassinate Senator Barack Obama and kill black children at a school.

Federal officials said they regarded the scheme as “serious.” It does not appear to have moved to an advanced stage, according to court documents unsealed Monday, but officials said the two men did acquire several rifles and cased a home and a gun store to rob as part of the plan.

Federal officials said that both of the men who were arrested — Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Ark., and Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn. — told interrogators that they had talked of assassinating Mr. Obama. Lawyers for the men could not be reached.

The two men “planned to drive their vehicle as fast as they could toward Obama shooting at him from the windows,” according to an affidavit filed in federal court in Jackson, Tenn., by an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Mr. Obama has no plans to be in Tennessee, and the affidavit does not make clear whether the men had picked a place for an attack.

The assassination was to be the culmination of a “killing spree” that would also single out children at an unnamed, predominately black school, federal officials said. The men talked of “killing 88 people and beheading 14 African-Americans,” according to the affidavit.

The two men each had “very strong views” about Aryan white power and “skinhead” ideology, the federal officials said, and the numbers 88 and 14 have special significance in the white power movement. The number 88 is shorthand for “Heil, Hitler” — H is the eighth letter in the alphabet —and 14 signifies a 14-word mantra among white supremacists: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

Officials said the two men met via the Internet through a mutual friend.

Concerns about possible plots against Mr. Obama have been acute because of his status as the first black presidential nominee from a major party. He has had Secret Service protection since May 2007, the earliest a candidate was ever assigned protection.

Mr. Cowart and Mr. Schlesselman were each charged with illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun, conspiracy to rob a firearms dealer and making threats against a presidential candidate. A detention hearing is scheduled for Thursday in Memphis.

“We honestly don’t know if they had the capability or the wherewithal to carry out the kind of plan that they talked about,” Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, said in an interview. “But we take any threat seriously no matter how big or how small it is.”

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Where do you start with the brilliance here?

The two men “planned to drive their vehicle as fast as they could toward Obama shooting at him from the windows,”

Genius..sheer, unadulterated, inbred genius...

"C'mon we're a' gonna drive mah truck all fast n shit right at him and you hang outta the winder and shoot jus' as fast as you kin..."

The number 88 is shorthand for “Heil, Hitler” — H is the eighth letter in the alphabet —and 14 signifies a 14-word mantra among white supremacists: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

Just say Heil Hitler and yadda yadda yadda....why do you have to use all this inspector gadget, double speak, crapola?

If your so proud say it loud....like the gays...your at least as proud as the gays aren't you?

The assassination was to be the culmination of a “killing spree” that would also single out children at an unnamed, predominately black school

C'mon grow a pair would you boys? School children? Really?

What kind of Aryan warriors are you for throwing down against kids?...sheesh.

Officials said the two men met via the Internet through a mutual friend.

Craigslist no doubt.

Mutual friend over the Internet? Like pedophiles do?....That's just too creepy on so many levels.

I am not sure if these two are the unfortunate product of inbreeding or pure grain, bath tub brewed white lightning.

Probably both.

Either way they will be making plenty of friends in the pokey...I hear they mix the white and black folks in there....good luck with that.

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Democrat For McCain

Democrats for McCain?

Isn't that like Jews for Hitler?

C'mon don't be an idiot.

As soon as you vote for a Republican it makes you a proponent of the Republican party ergo a Republican.

Your no longer a Democrat, your a Republican...deal with it.

It's not a dirty word even though I don't prescribe to Republican philosophy.

Just come out of the closet...your a Republican.

But back to my earlier statement...Democrat for McCain is an oxymoron...isn't that like being a Jew for Hitler?

Put it on a low boil in the easy bake oven you call your brain and think it over.



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Guns N' Roses - Hurray....yawn

Guns N' Roses to finally release `Democracy' album

After years of delay, Guns N' Roses is finally releasing "Chinese Democracy."

Geffen Records has announced that the band's eagerly awaited album will be released Nov. 23 at Best Buy stores and the retail chain's Web site.

"Chinese Democracy" is the first album of new Guns N' Roses material since 1991's "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II."

The band, fronted by Axl Rose, has sold 90 million albums and made a splash in the '80s with the hits "Sweet Child o' Mine," "Paradise City" and "Welcome to the Jungle."

Their 14-track album includes the song "If The World," which is part of the soundtrack to the recent film "Body of Lies." The band recently completed a world tour.

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Guns N' Roses from 1991?

From 17 years ago?

Isn't Axl the only original band member?

Isn't that more like Gun N' Rose?

Here's my prediction....Chinese Democracy will totally suck ass.

Lead singers are notoriously the least talented member of ANY musical group. (Just ask David Lee Roth)

By the simple fact alone that it took him 17 years to complete tells me this will be over thought, under inspired, 40 year old man, teen angst, drivel that Axl scratched his balls over thinking every track over and over and over again.

"Eagerly awaiting"...who the F was eagerly awaiting this piece of audio junk?

No one I know and GnR is my era...you had your moment Axl, walk away knowing you got more than most and more than you deserved and be good with that.

Am I being bias?

Why yes I am, Axl has no talent, that makes me biased against this pathetic attempt to repopulate his shrinking bank account.

When you have lightning in a bottle it takes you a few days to cut a album, the music has legs and does all the talking.

It's only when they (the talent) "hit it big" that it takes 17 years to produce a total piece of crap.

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