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17:01:34 05/25/12
IG Extended Coverage: Are NBA Players Actually Good at Modern Warfare 3?
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IG Extended Coverage: Are NBA Players Actually Good at Modern Warfare 3?
www.youtube.com Click here to watch IG Extended Coverage: First Look FIFA13 - Part 2 Are NBA Players Actually Good at Modern Warfare 3? At the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 2 DLC event in Venice, CA., we caught up with Brandon Jennings of the Milwaukee Bucks and Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz to ask them about their gaming habits, the best weapons to use in COD and what's in store for their teams during the next NBA season. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This video will show you how to... Play Modern Warfare 3 Play in the NBA Use the Best Weapons - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FOR MORE MACHINIMA, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE SPORTS GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE MMO & RPG GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE ANIMATIONS & SHORTS, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE TRAILERS, GO TO: www.youtube.com Tags: "Call of Duty" "Modern Warfare 3" MW3 PS3 "XBox 360" XBox360 X360 PC MPN 83747 "Infinity Ward" Activision "CoD 8" MW three Constant "Machinima Sports" "Inside Gaming Daily" Inside Gaming "Brandon Jennings" Milwaukee Bucks "Gordon Hayward" Utah Jazz NBA National Basketball Association "NBA Finals" "NBA Playoffs" "Western Conference" "Eastern Conference" "Monte Ellis" "Larry O'Brien Trophy" P90 First-person shooter FPS 1st person shooter Soap MacTavish Captain Price Nikolai Shepard From: MachinimaSports Views: 1160 44 ratings Time: 05:48 More in Gaming
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02:01:26 05/25/12
Myth McConnell
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In the wake of the debt-ceiling crisis he helped manufacture last summer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell boasted it was "a hostage that's worth ransoming" which "also is a new template" for the future. As it turns out, those threats were among the few true words McConnell has uttered. Because while he's promising once again to blackmail the White House over the debt ceiling, the Kentucky Republican claimed it's because "we'd like to do something about the nation's biggest problem, spending and debt, which of course is the reason for this economic malaise." Of course, as the data show, it's the very austerity policies here and in Europe which are costing jobs and hurting growth.
But Mitch McConnell's myth-making hardly ends there. On the economy, taxes, deficits, health care and so much else, virtually all of McConnell's talking points are tried - and untrue.
( Click a link to jump to the details for each below ):
* "Obama Made the Economy Worse"
* "No Evidence Whatsoever That the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Diminished Revenue"
* "Punishing Job Creators"
* "We Look a Lot Like Greece Already"
* Public Sector Layoffs Are a "Local" Problem
* 47 Million Uninsured Americans "Don't Go Without Health Care"
* The Public Option "May Cost You Your Life"
* Democrats Are "Sticking It to Seniors with Cuts to Medicare"
"Obama Made the Economy Worse"
For months, Mitch McConnell (for example, here , here and here ) regurgitated the GOP talking point that President Obama " made the economy worse ." Sadly for the trickle-down mythmakers of the Republican Party , the facts and the overwhelming consensus of economists - including John McCain's 2008 brain trust - prove otherwise. President Obama not only did not make the American economy worse; no thanks to obstructionist Republicans in Congress he saved the United States from "Great Depression 2.0" and put the nation on the path to recovery.
Start, for example, with the conclusions of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Despite Republican mythmaking that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) "created zero jobs," in November the CBO reported that the stimulus added up to 2.4 million jobs and boosted GDP by as much as 1.9 points in the previous quarter. As The Hill explained, the CBO has found that "President Obama's 2009 stimulus package continues to benefit the struggling economy": >
The agency said the measure raised gross domestic product by between 0.3 and 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2011, which ended Sept. 30. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that GDP in that quarter was only 2 percent total...
By CBO's numbers, the $800 billion stimulus added up to 0.9 million jobs in 2009, 3.3 million jobs in 2010 and 2.6 million jobs in 2011.
Mark Zandi , an adviser to John McCain in 2008, was adamant on positive role of the stimulus. Federal intervention, he and Princeton economist Alan Blinder argued in August 2010, literally saved the United States from a second Great Depression. In " How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End ," Blinder and Zandi's models confirmed the impact of the Obama recovery program and other federal interventions dating back to 2008, concluding that "laissez faire was not an option": >
We find that its effects on real GDP, jobs, and inflation are huge, and probably averted what could have been called Great Depression 2.0. For example, we estimate that, without the government's response, GDP in 2010 would be about 11.5% lower, payroll employment would be less by some 8½ million jobs, and the nation would now be experiencing deflation.
"No Evidence Whatsoever That the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Diminished Revenue"
In his version of the Republican myth that " tax cuts pay for themselves ," President Bush confidently proclaimed, "You cut taxes and the tax revenues increase." As it turned out, not so much.
After Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt with his supply-side tax cuts, George W. Bush doubled it again with his own. (Reagan's performance would have been much worse, had he not raised taxes 11 times to help make up the shocking shortfall.) As a share of American GDP, tax revenues peaked in 2000; that is, before the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concluded, the Bush tax cuts accounted for half of the deficits during his tenure, and if made permanent , over the next decade would cost the U.S. Treasury more than Iraq, Afghanistan, the recession, TARP and the stimulus - combined .
Nevertheless, as the Republican Party waged its all-out attack in 2010 to preserve the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy , the GOP's number two man in the Senate provided the talking point to help sell the $70 billion annual giveaway to America's rich. "You should never," Arizona's Jon Kyl declared, "have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans." For his part, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell rushed to defend Kyl's fuzzy math: >
"There's no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue. They increased revenue because of the vibrancy of these tax cuts in the economy. So I think what Senator Kyl was expressing was the view of virtually every Republican on that subject."
That may have been a view universally shared by virtually every Republican, but it happens to be wrong.
"Punishing Job Creators"
For years, Senator McConnell has been among the legions of Republicans wrongly arguing that even the slightest increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans is tantamount to " punishing job creators ." As his colleague John Boehner put it: >
"The top one percent of wage earners in the United States...pay forty percent of the income taxes...The people he's [President Obama] is talking about taxing are the very people that we expect to reinvest in our economy."
If so, those expectations were sadly unmet under George W. Bush. After all, the last time the top tax rate was 39.6 percent during the Clinton administration , the United States enjoyed rising incomes, 23 million new jobs and budget surpluses. Under Bush? Not so much.
On January 9, 2009, the Republican-friendly Wall Street Journal summed it up with an article titled simply, " Bush on Jobs: the Worst Track Record on Record ." (The Journal's interactive table quantifies his staggering failure relative to every post-World War II president.) The meager one million jobs created under President Bush didn't merely pale in comparison to the 23 million produced during Bill Clinton's tenure. In September 2009, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee charted Bush's job creation disaster, the worst since Hoover.
That dismal performance prompted David Leonhardt of the New York Times to ask last fall, "Why should we believe that extending the Bush tax cuts will provide a big lift to growth?" His answer was unambiguous: >
Those tax cuts passed in 2001 amid big promises about what they would do for the economy. What followed? The decade with the slowest average annual growth since World War II. Amazingly, that statement is true even if you forget about the Great Recession and simply look at 2001-7... >
Is there good evidence the tax cuts persuaded more people to join the work force (because they would be able to keep more of their income)? Not really. The labor-force participation rate fell in the years after 2001 and has never again approached its record in the year 2000. >
Is there evidence that the tax cuts led to a lot of entrepreneurship and innovation? Again, no. The rate at which start-up businesses created jobs fell during the past decade.
The data are clear: lower taxes for America's so called job-creators don't mean either faster economic growth or more jobs for Americans .
As Jared Bernstein aptly put it earlier this month: >
"Tax cuts and job growth? They're just not that into each other."
"We Look a Lot Like Greece Already"
As their last round of hostage-taking of the debt heated up last summer, Republicans including Mitch McConnell warned, "We look a lot like Greece."
hile FactCheck.org was quick to conclude that "whatever it 'looks like' through Sen. McConnell's eyes -- the fact is that the U.S. is not yet a fiscal wreck of Greek proportions," its analysis hardly does justice to the scale of the Republican myth-making. The Washington Monthly's Steve Benen summed it up quite succinctly: >
New rule: every time a confused Republican lawmakers compare the United States' fiscal conditions to that of Greece, an angel loses its wings.
Look, the very idea is just crazy. The U.S. has extremely low interest rates and foreign investor are happy to loan us money; Greece has extremely high interest rates and no one is eager to loan the country money. The U.S. has our own currency; Greece has the Euro. We have a great credit rating (for now); Greece has an awful credit rating. We have a manageable debt; Greece has a debt crisis. We're a large country with an enormous economy; Greece is a small country with a small economy. We have one of the world's most stable systems of government (at least until six months ago); Greece's government structure is a little shaky.
For his part, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been decrying the " Hellenization of economic discourse " for months. "Greece -- with a long history of fiscal irresponsibility, very high public debt, and a country without a currency -- doesn't bear much resemblance even to the other peripheral Europeans, let alone the United States."
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Here's debt levels (if you ask me the IMF projections for Greece are too optimistic). >
Plus there's the having your own currency thing, and the fact that the interest rate on US 10-year bonds is 3.11 percent, on Greek bonds 16.82 percent. >
Otherwise we're exactly the same.
Public Sector Layoffs a "Local" Problem
Last fall, Minority Leader McConnell led the GOP opposition to President Obama's proposed $400 billion American Jobs Act. The loss of hundreds of thousands of police, firefighter, teacher and other public sector jobs, he insisted, was a "local" problem.
As it turns out, the 600,000 state and local government jobs already lost since December 2008 is very much a national issue. That " anti-stimulus ," it turns out, has added a full point to America's unemployment rate .
Last month, the Economic Policy Institute noted that the private sector had gained 2.8 million jobs while federal, state and local governments shed 584,000 just since June 2009. EPI concluded that the public sector job losses constituted "an unprecedented drag on the recovery": >
"The current recovery is the only one that has seen public-sector losses over its first 31 months."
Back in March, Paul Krugman expressed the same point , but with some inconvenient historical context for the Party of Reagan. "In fact, if it weren't for this destructive fiscal austerity," Krugman explained, "Our unemployment rate would almost certainly be lower now than it was at a comparable stage of the 'Morning in America' recovery during the Reagan era." >
We're talking big numbers here. If government employment under Mr. Obama had grown at Reagan-era rates, 1.3 million more Americans would be working as schoolteachers, firefighters, police officers, etc., than are currently employed in such jobs. >
And once you take the effects of public spending on private employment into account, a rough estimate is that the unemployment rate would be 1.5 percentage points lower than it is, or below 7 percent -- significantly better than the Reagan economy at this stage.
47 Million Uninsured Americans "Don't Go Without Health Care"
McConnell the " strict obstructionist " was naturally in the forefront of the all-out Republican effort to block health care reform at any cost. As he repeatedly put it in June 2009 , "all of us want reform, but not reform that denies, delays, or rations health care." To prove his point, McConnell didn't merely trot out a Canadian patient who came to the U.S. for special treatment, but insisted to NBC's David Gregory that no American does without health care now. >
GREGORY: Do you think it's a moral issue that 47 million Americans go without health insurance? >
McCONNELL: Well, they don't go without health care. It's not the most efficient way to provide it. As we know, the doctors in the hospitals are sworn to provide health care. We all agree it is not the most efficient way to provide health care to find somebody only in the emergency room and then pass those costs on to those who are paying for insurance. So it is important, I think, to reduce the number of uninsured. The question is, what is the best way to do that?
That President George W. Bush, Tom Delay and Paul Broun among other Republicans also claimed "people have access to health care in America...after all, you just go to an emergency room" doesn't make it any more true. As the numbers show -- 50 million uninsured, another 25 million uninsured, 45,000 unnecessary deaths, one in five Americans "self-rationing" care and 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies being related to medical bills -- the crisis is far worse than the one Mitch McConnell pretends doesn't exist.
The Public Option "May Cost You Your Life"
While Mitch McConnell insisted that the lack of insurance doesn't prevent anyone from getting health care, in 2009 he suggested having coverage could prove fatal . Months before the passage of the Affordable Care Act without the so-called "public option," Minority Leader McConnell said it would be deadly.
That irresponsible fear-mongering came during an appearance on Dennis Miller's radio show in October 2009. Blasting the "opt-out" version of the public option then being considered in the Senate bill, the Senator from the state ranked 45th in health care performance insisted access to coverage could kill you : >
MCCONNELL: Well, it doesn't make any difference frankly whether you opt-in or you opt-out, it's still a government plan. You know, Medicaid, the program for the poor now, states can opt-out of that, but none of them have. I think if you have any kind of government insurance program, you're going to be stuck with it and it will lead us in the direction of the European style, you know, sort of British-style, single payer, government run system. And those systems are known for delays, denial of care and, you know, if your particular malady doesn't fit the government regulation, you don't get the medication. >
MILLER: Right. >
MCCONNELL: And it may cost you your life. I mean, we don't want to go down that path.
As a Harvard Medical School study found, each year the path of no health insurance leads 45,000 Americans to the grave.
Democrats Are "Sticking It to Seniors with Cuts to Medicare"
For two years running, Mitch McConnell has been among the 40 GOP Senator voting for Paul Ryan's House budget plan to privatize and inevitably ration Medicare now used by 46 million American seniors. In the late 1990's, McConnell joined in Newt Gingrich's effort to slash almost 15 percent from the Medicare budget so that the program would "wither on the vine." But when the Affordable Care Act called for savings from the private Medicare Advantage program used by only 15 percent of elderly beneficiaries, it was Mitch McConnell who warned seniors about the mythical danger.
In July 2009, McConnell tried to scare America's 46 million Medicare beneficiaries by declaring, "The administration plans to use Medicare cuts to fund yet another new government program." Hoping to build on the momentum of the GOP's disgusting and demonstrably false " euthanasia " talking point, McConnell cautioned: >
"Some in Congress seem to be in such a rush to pass just any reform, rather than the right reform, that they're looking everywhere for the money to pay for it -- even if it means sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare."
That salvo comes just two weeks after McConnell promised to defeat health care reform in the Senate, warning America's highest turnout voting block: >
"They are going to pay for this plan by cutting Medicare, that is cutting seniors."
Those claims, the New York Times pointed out the day after the Republicans' overwhelming triumph in the 2010 midterms elections were misleading at best and false at worst. But, sadly, they worked .
And so it goes.
As Joshua Green documented last year in the Atlantic , "Mitch McConnell is a master manipulator and strategist" whose "relentless tactics have made his party victorious." But that doesn't make him a truth-teller, except on those rare occasions when he reveals his true motivations. During the debt ceiling stand-off last summer , McConnell briefly got weak in the knees at the prospect of U.S. sovereign default not because it would be a disaster for the nation, but because it could damage his Republican Party : >
"I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy. ... If we go into default, he will say that Republicans are making the economy worse and try to convince the public -- maybe with some merit, if people stop getting their Social Security checks and military families start getting letters saying service people overseas don't get paid. It's an argument he could have a good chance of winning, and all of the sudden we have co-ownership of a bad economy," he said. "That is very bad positioning going into an election."
Especially an election which marks the culmination of Mitch McConnell's work over the past three and a half years: >
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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13:17:04 05/24/12
Jesus Is Bringing Sexy Back - Part Three
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Sexual temptation surrounds us, exerting a constant pressure. Part 3 of this series discusses the word PESTER—the second element in sexual entrapment—and how we can overcome temptation. The answer? It’s not what you would expect.___
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00:30:00 05/23/12
Drive it!: The Motor Magazine
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This edition of Drive it! is on the speedy side. Sportscars from Germany and Italy - plus a legendary dream on wheels from France.Present it! The Audi S6 sedan, S6 Avant and S7 SportbackAudi presents three new models in S-series line-up. The S6 series is available as a station wagon or sedan. The S6 Avant and the S7 Sportback both boast a fastback. And they’re all powered by the same powerful engine, a four-cylinder V8 biturbo with 309 kilowatts of thrust. A special cylinder engine program saves gas by switching off four of the cylinders during more leisurely driving. This means that, on average, the S6 four-door sedan needs 9.6 liters of gas to cover 100 kilometers. Test it! The Citroën DS5The Citroën DS was a massively popular car in France for several decades.Its futuristic form and sensational self-leveling suspension are legendary. So is the new DS5 another automotive revolution? The designers have done all they can to give the DS5 a conspicuous look. Too short to be a wagon, too high for a coupe - and complete with chrome "sabers” at the front: the DS5 is not here to keep to conventions. On the comfort front, however, it’s no match for the original DS. Its suspension is far too rigid.Admire it! The Lamborghini Gallardo 570-4 Spyder PerformantePure sportiness and extreme performance are what define an elite sports car and the stuff of the "Made in Italy" legend.Introducing the Lamborghini Gallardo 570-4 Spyder Performante. Carbon fiber technology has made the Performante lighter, more agile and dynamic. The 570's name says it: the super sportster's 5200 cc generate 570 horsepower, or 419 kilowatts of power, taking it from zero to 100 kph in just 3.9 seconds. Its top speed clocks in at 324 kph.Examine it! Apps for Car DriversSmartphones are as much a part of many people's lives as cars.And of course, there's any number of applications, or apps for short, designed especially for drivers. Of what real value are they? We test a couple out with three typical smartphone users. Seemingly useful apps can be downloaded and installed quickly and easily. Can a virtual glass of water help make our driving habits more fuel-efficient? Can an app help us find cars we've parked and then lost somewhere in a maze of streets?Vintage: BMW 319/1The BMW 319/1 is one of the rarest and most in-demand German cars from the inter-war era. Only 178 BMW 319/1s were ever built. The few available today cost 230,000 euros - more than a Ferrari. Andreas Mooser is lucky enough to own one of these vintage models. He picked up his after it was damaged in a car crash, and spent 14 years restoring the engine and the body. Today, Andreas and his car take part in vintage vehicle trips. He drives the car himself to such events. That's because he thinks cars - even vintage models - are made for the road.
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22:21:13 05/22/12
The Ultimate Show: Burt Watson Exclusive, UFC 146 Preview & Move of the Week
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The Ultimate Show: Burt Watson Exclusive, UFC 146 Preview & Move of the Week
Subscribe to The Ultimate Show on YouTube - goo.gl Follow Ultimate Show on Twitter - www.twitter.com Follow Kenda Perez on Twitter - www.twitter.com On this week's episode of The Ultimate Show, our cameras were live at this past weekend's amazing Strikeforce event. Hear from top fighters like Gilbert Melendez and Daniel Cormier after their bouts, as well as an exclusive interview with one of MMA's fastest rising stars, the undefeated Chris Weidman! In this candid interview, he reveals what he's looking forward to next in his UFC career, his prediction for the big Chael Sonnen vs. Anderson Silva Middleweight Championship fight and his opinion of Chael Sonnen's controversial trash talking. UFC 146 is only a few days away, and the main card is slated to be an all-heavyweight throwdown! The lovely Kenda Perez previews the top three bouts: Junior Dos Santos vs. Frank Mir for the UFC Heavyweight Title, Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio "Big Foot" Silva and Roy "Big Country" Nelson vs. Dave Herman. This week, we present part two of our sit-down with "The Busiest Man In The UFC," Burt Watson. What's it like being Dana White's hand-picked fight coordinator? Find out in our exclusive interview! Finally, it wouldn't be The Ultimate Show without the latest edition of The Move of the Week. This week, our experts show you how to master the deadly kimura armlock submission. Get your latest MMA fix right here on The Ultimate Show! Be sure to sound off and let us know what you think in the ... From: BleacherReport Views: 511 4 ratings Time: 08:54 More in Sports
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17:00:16 05/22/12
Nissan 240 SX v. 1072 BMW 2800 (Part 1)
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Nissan 240 SX v. 1072 BMW 2800 (Part 1)
Episode 4 - Story 2, Part 1 - Team Champion (Nissan 240 SX) Vs. Team 100 Octane (1972 BMW 2800) (drifting course) This round pits two rival auto garages against each other. But unlike our first two teams, have never done a race like this before. How will this play into their car selections and how will they prepare for it? Can you buy and build a race car for $1000? Matty Blake hosts Battle of the Beaters, in which we see if two teams can do exactly that. In this first of three parts, the teams set out to find the right cars for the job. Only when they've spent the money and tested their cars can they find out if their rides will do the trick. Connect with Matty Blake: Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.youtube.com Connect to Car and Driver: Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Every week the Car and Driver YouTube Channel will launch episodes of Full Hoon, Driver Rehab, Battle of the Beaters, Car and Driver Tested, Popular Mechanics Saturday Mechanic, and Road & Track Presents! From: CARandDRIVER Views: 4683 120 ratings Time: 09:56 More in Shows
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12:57:37 05/20/12
24h race Nürburgring 2012 - Clip 5
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24h race N%uumlrburgring 2012 - Clip 5
Mercedes AMG - The tide has turned! The leading SLS AMG GT3 with number 22 of ROWE Racing (Graf/J%aumlger/Roloff/Seyffarth) unfortunately retired due to technical difficulties in round 120. Nonetheless, the second race car (Zehe/Hartung/Rehfeld/Bullitt) of the team is still racing and keen to achieve top ten. They are currently on position twelve. The Hankook-Team Heico with the cars 65 (Heyer/Schneider/Arnold/Margaritis) and 66 (Frankenhout/Simonsen/Kaffer/Arnold) is pushing hard for podium. The race cars are currently on position three and four. Have a look at the fifth video that will provide you with exclusive insights from our fan stand, the race, the program in the AMG Lounge and guided paddock tours as part of Mercedes-AMG's event schedule here at the N%uumlrburgring. From: OfficialMercedesAMG Views: 980 21 ratings Time: 01:18 More in Autos & Vehicles
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01:27:45 05/27/12
US BANK is trying to evict Luz, Kevin, and Katherine - Part Two
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In Part Two Tommi Avicolli Mecca reads off the group's three demands: 1. US BANK must recognize the rights of these families as tenants -- primarily their right to stay and stop the eviction proceeding immediately. 2. US BANK must act as a responsible landlord by accepting their monthly rent and maintaining the property. 3. Interim Sheriff Vicki Hennessy must not honor any court order for eviction of these families.
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03:08:03 05/19/12
euronews cinema - Madagascar gang go wild in Cannes
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euronews cinema - Madagascar gang go wild in Cannes
www.euronews.com Europe's Most Wanted, part three of the wildly successful Madagascar trilogy is screening out of competition at Cannes. Hollywood A-lister Ben Stiller - the voice of Alex the Lion - was joined on the French Riviera by co-stars Chris Rock (Marty) David Schwimmer, who plays the neurosis-ridden Melman, and the voice behind Gloria the hippo - Jada Pinkett Smith. Along for the ride this time were Martin Short and Jessica Chastain, who voice two of the animals in the travelling circus the New York gang end up joining. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com From: Euronews Views: 864 2 ratings Time: 03:02 More in Shows
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03:08:03 05/19/12
euronews cinema - Madagascar gang go wild in Cannes
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euronews cinema - Madagascar gang go wild in Cannes
www.euronews.com Europe's Most Wanted, part three of the wildly successful Madagascar trilogy is screening out of competition at Cannes. Hollywood A-lister Ben Stiller - the voice of Alex the Lion - was joined on the French Riviera by co-stars Chris Rock (Marty) David Schwimmer, who plays the neurosis-ridden Melman, and the voice behind Gloria the hippo - Jada Pinkett Smith. Along for the ride this time were Martin Short and Jessica Chastain, who voice two of the animals in the travelling circus the New York gang end up joining. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com From: Euronews Views: 854 1 ratings Time: 03:02 More in Shows
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03:07:30 05/19/12
euronews cinema - Madagascar gang go wild in Cannes
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euronews cinema - Madagascar gang go wild in Cannes
www.euronews.com Europe's Most Wanted, part three of the wildly successful Madagascar trilogy is screening out of competition at Cannes. Hollywood A-lister Ben Stiller - the voice of Alex the Lion - was joined on the French Riviera by co-stars Chris Rock (Marty) David Schwimmer, who plays the neurosis-ridden Melman, and the voice behind Gloria the hippo - Jada Pinkett Smith. Along for the ride this time were Martin Short and Jessica Chastain, who voice two of the animals in the travelling circus the New York gang end up joining. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com From: Euronews Views: 139 2 ratings Time: 03:02 More in Shows
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03:07:30 05/19/12
euronews cinema - Madagascar gang go wild in Cannes
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euronews cinema - Madagascar gang go wild in Cannes
www.euronews.com Europe's Most Wanted, part three of the wildly successful Madagascar trilogy is screening out of competition at Cannes. Hollywood A-lister Ben Stiller - the voice of Alex the Lion - was joined on the French Riviera by co-stars Chris Rock (Marty) David Schwimmer, who plays the neurosis-ridden Melman, and the voice behind Gloria the hippo - Jada Pinkett Smith. Along for the ride this time were Martin Short and Jessica Chastain, who voice two of the animals in the travelling circus the New York gang end up joining. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com From: Euronews Views: 137 2 ratings Time: 03:02 More in Shows
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02:44:02 05/19/12
Ready Set Flow, Part 1
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Three audience members have a freestyle rap battle where they must hit on three topics during their flow. Part 1 of 2
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Ready Set Flow, Part 2
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Three audience members have a freestyle rap battle where they must hit on three topics during their flow. Part 2 of 2
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23:46:33 05/17/12
Biblical Romney and Two and a Half Men Get Oral - NTN #126
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JOHN EDWARDS: POLLING THE JURY?
In a shocking turn of events at the John Edwards criminal trial, derfmagazine.com is reporting Edwards has impregnated all five female members of the jury.
Jurors 2, 5, 6, 9, and 11 have all been confirmed to be “in the Edwards way,” and the lead prosecutor says they are now unsure how to proceed because “We believe we have a strong case, but now have to figure out if knocking up jurors will make them more sympathetic to the defendant or less.”
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MITT ROMNEY: THE BIBLE WAY… SORT OF
GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney told a conservative college audience this week that his definition of marriage comes from the Bible, or at least part of it.
“Marriage should be the way it was in the good book,” Romney told a cheering crowd at Liberty University. “Except for those parts of the bible where people had lots of wives, because even though God was okay with that back then, we need to pick and choose scripture so it fits our political ends, like that crap about loving one’s enemies, I mean, come on.”
TWO AND HALF MEN – AN ORAL TRADITION
After being renewed for its 10th season, the creator of 2 ½ Men says this year will contain more oral sex jokes than ever before.
“BJs are always funny,” said creator Chuck Lorre. “Last year we averaged about one “oral” joke per show, but this year, we’re going for three to four, including one special episode where it’ll be nothing but thinly veiled euphemisms including “snake swallowing, the old gag-reflex tester, and tongue bathing the fire hose.”
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It's Casual - Live in Studio B - Part 1 - The New Los Angeles
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Like most Angelenos, Eddie Solis is pissed about the traffic on the 101. Unlike most Angelenos, Eddie Solis writes songs about being pissed about the traffic on the 101.
Solis’ band, an impossibly loud punk/hardcore duo called It’s Casual, addresses transit issues with an urgency hitherto unmatched in the realm of urban planning. Imagine Henry Rollins at a City Council Transportation Committee meeting, all neck veins and municipal outrage, and you get the picture.
Onstage, Solis’ eyes bulge amid a shock of curly hair, his throat emitting the collective war cry of a million frustrated commuters: “Los Angeles! There’s too many people! I want them to go away!”
His isn’t the Los Angeles of Priuses, Pilates and brunch, but the L.A. of undocumented immigrants, hardcore music and bus-stop delays. After nearly 10 years of ceaseless yelling, It’s Casual have a busy year ahead of them, what with slots on Fu Manchu’s North American tour, a forthcoming sequel to their ’08 ode to the city, The New Los Angeles, and, maybe, a European tour.
“We’ve been working at it and believing in this kind of music — which I call L.A. hardcore or L.A. skate rock — every day,” says Solis. His gaze is unflinching, and his voice is smog-raspened. He calls It’s Casual “L.A.’s only two-piece hardcore band” and is serious about his art. “I don’t take it lightly. It all comes from deep within.”
It’s Casual formed in 2001, the name inspired by a line in Cameron Crowe’s obscure follow-up to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, called The Wild Life. In it, a character played by the late Christopher Penn replies with “It’s casual” every time he is asked a question. Solis currently has a similar relationship with drummers — he’s between them. As far as a third member? “We kept trying to find a bassist, and they kept flaking,” Solis says.
The band’s sonic boom is amazing, considering there are only two of them. The secret to their sound is a unique pedal and mic’ing system. Solis’ guitar is actually wired to two amps for added punch. The results are so thunderous that fellow musicians have been known to come early to shows to watch him set up. (“There is a special formula with different pedals,” he explains of his sound. He’s trying to register it as intellectual property.)
It’s Casual’s first record, The New Los Angeles, came out in fall 2007, and was inspired by Solis’ commute from Pico Rivera to Hollywood. Tracks include “EZ Pass,” about the public transit ticket, and “The Red Line” (the handy subway that connects North Hollywood to Union Station). Most of It’s Casual’s songs last around two minutes and contain no more than three or four lyrics, hammering home their message with a directness most public servants and council officials have yet to master. Even Councilman Bill Rosendahl, chair of Los Angeles’ Transportation Committee, is impressed. “Music is a good way to get transportation messages across,” he says during a recent phone call, adding that he hoped It’s Casual were aware that plans for the Purple Line are afoot. “They should write a song about the Purple Line!” he enthuses, suggesting possible lyrics, singing: “The Purple Line/In my lifetime!”
It’s not all subways and off-ramps. Solis ventures into other matters. “Cholas Are Loyal,” for example, is all about the advantages of dating Latinas. And It’s Casual’s next album, The New Los Angeles II: Less Violence, More Violins, is inspired primarily by the California education budget deficit. “Do you think It’s Casual will translate in Europe?” he wonders, aware of his band’s distinctly local messages. But wherever there is a rush hour, there are people who identify with Eddie Solis.
Born and raised in East Los Angeles County, Solis is “the result of basically growing up around a gang-infested area with lots of negativity.” He turned to music and skateboarding as an escape, and was 15 when he started his first band — a Ramones cover group called Endless Vacation, which played shows in his parents’ living room. He got “the heaviness” from his father, who used to carry his young son around the house on his shoulders while listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and the Who. “They weren’t handing me money to buy me instruments,” Solis says, “but they were, like, ‘Hey, listen, we know you wanna do this, so here’s our backyard and here’s our living room.’ Which is pretty punk.”
His parents let him build a halfpipe in the back, and Solis would “put Slayer on the radio superloud” and learn skateboarding tricks with his friends. “That would be Friday night, and then Saturday we would have a show on the ramp and take donations to keep it refurbished.” Skate videos informed his taste in music — the teenage Solis would grab a pen and paper and pause the VCR to jot down names of bands like Black Flag, Dinosaur Junior, Hüsker Dü, “… all the good stuff on SST.”
Fast-forward to 1993, when Solis started interning at metal record label Century Media, which gave him a taste of hardcore commuting. Taking the bus from Pico Rivera to the label’s headquarters in Santa Monica every day was a formative experience, but he only lasted about a month (“Well, you know, it was a long trek”). That job led to a position at Priority Records, down the street in the CNN building. That’s where he learned how to sell records, a job he still does today as sales manager at doom-metal label Southern Lord.
Solis also worked as a publicist for Black Flag at SST, under the label’s founder, Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn. Basically it was the gig of Solis’ 15-year-old dreams. “I took the job because I thought it would be great to work for an icon, a legend,” he says. It was there that he learned the philosophy of DIY.
Three years ago, while strolling down the road near the Southern Lord offices in East Hollywood, Solis came upon the Relax Bar, a 150-person capacity Thai karaoke bar with an orange awning. Solis has single-handedly transformed it into a hub for L.A.’s heavy music scene. He’s booked more than 400 thrash, doom, noise and punk bands there in the last three years. “I was going to lunch, walking past the Relax Bar and the door was open. I saw a stage and it had this dark, musty kind of vibe. Kind of grim in terms of the atmosphere but real positive in terms of what you could do there. I thought, if I could get these owners on the same page and book any format — whether it’s satanic black metal or really avant-garde stuff — that would be great.”
The Relax Bar’s owners, despite not being fluent in English, supported Solis’ vision, prompting the most unlikely cultural union since Weezer recruited Kenny G. “They had a guy translating as I tried to describe the kinds of bands I wanted to book, using metal as my main focus. I said ‘Ozzfest, no — not those kinds of bands. Stuff that’s a little more creative, full of more soul, and more organic.” He played them some It’s Casual and High on Fire and a selection of punk and grindcore CDs, and they seemed to like it. Turns out the ballad-loving Thai karaoke bar owners, like Solis, possessed an unyielding passion for DIY. “They know how much work it is to bring your gear out, record your own stuff and self-release records,” says Solis. “They are all musicians themselves.” It’s been a happy union ever since, with some of the gnarliest underground bands in L.A., from Municipal Waste to Chingalera, rocking the Relax Bar’s tiny stage amid the perpetual aroma of green curry and ginger — and, when the door pops open, the faint smell of bus exhaust.
