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Has technology killed the art of DJing?
Hip-hop has four elements: the graffiti artist, the DJ, the breakdancer, the MC. What modern technology has done is to allow an MC rapper to bring an electronic player, and there's no need for the DJ behind him. That looks a little weird to me. A band I'm cool with. But the fans should see the humanism in music, even if the record skips, even if the MC forgets a line. The way I see it, the economy's pretty rough. If I'm gonna pay 20, 30 bucks to go see you, I need to see you naked and raw. I paid for this.

What's it like having all your baggage out there for the world to read?
Scary. I've been asked for many a year by people who know my background, and know I survived, if I'd talk about it. And I always said, "No, no, no." So for me to tell the story ... my mom, my pops, the drug habit and the pain, this was the most fearful thing I've ever done. But people kept telling me, "What you've gone through can help so many people because you survived." And that was the breaking point for me. I'm here to attest that despite the cocaine, the bad record deals, not having the perfect family, I survived and I made something of myself. And I'm OK.

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Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:43:33 PM

They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
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Posted By: Krohn @ 10/08/2008 11:49:34 PM

"Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

"Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

'Rank snobbery'

Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

"The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

"The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."
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Posted By: Krohn @ 10/06/2008 6:06:37 PM

The Antichrist!:
When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn???t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the ???bubble of American supremacy,??? because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global ???equilibrium.??? So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.

And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms ???regime changes,??? is through very difficult economic conditions.

America has not yet felt the full force of Soros style economic shock treatment. But others have.

Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.

When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an ???economic war criminal??? who ???sucks the blood from the people.??? Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a ???third way??? toward economic stability.

Wake up, America, before it is too late!!!!