blackfolk [abstract_truth]

Yesterday I downloaded the "The Tommy Boy Story" from iTunes.

The first track that played was "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force and immediately I had to fight back the urge to head over to the nearest roller rink to relive my childhood.  

So this got me to thinking about all those summer anthems through the years.  You know, the ones that basically shut the radio down for the entire summer and remained on a "4 times an hour" rotation for months?  Back in the days when the only form of portable music existed in the form of boom boxes or those gi-normous Sony Walkmans with the only choice of content being the local radio station or cassette tapes.

Some other memorable ones for me are:

The Message - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five (1983?)
Raisin' Hell - Run -DMC (1986) - The entire album
Make It Last Forever - Keith Sweat (1987) - The entire album
Keep on Movin' - Soul II Soul (1989) - They played the hell outta this record when it came out!
Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em - MC Hammer (1990) - Y'all know y'all rocked this album!!
Born to Sing - En Vogue (1990) - I swear that "Hold On" video was on every time I turned the TV on that summer.

What are some of your memorable summer anthems?  What's on the soundtrack of your teenage years?
 
   

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Conyers On Rove: "Someone's Got To Kick His A**"

blackfolk [misslaura]

May 15, 2008
Categories: Campaigns

Biden: Bush's comments were 'bullshit'

 

Sen. Joe Biden, piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bush’s speech in Israel today:

“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”

Speaking before the Knesset, Bush said that “some people” believe the United States “should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Democrats have interpreted the comments as an attack on Sen. Barack Obama, and Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the president was out of line.

“He is the guy who has weakened us,” he said. “He has increased the number of terrorists in the world. It is his policies that have produced this vulnerability that the U.S. has. It’s his [own] intelligence community [that] has pointed this out, not me.”

Biden noted that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have both suggested that the United States ought to find a way to talk more with its enemies.

"If he thinks this is appeasement, is he going to come back and fire his own cabinet?” Biden asked. “Is he going to fire Condi Rice?”

 

 

In a separate statement, Sen. John F. Kerry said that Bush "is still playing the disgusting and dangerous political game Karl Rove perfected, which is insulting to every American and disrespectful to our ally Israel. George Bush should be making Israel secure, not slandering Barack Obama from the Knesset."

The White House insists that Bush wasn’t referring specifically to Obama, an argument that Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) called "baloney."

"There is no escaping what the president is doing," said Durbin, who supports Obama. "It is an attack on Sen. Obama’s position that we should not be avoiding even those we disagree with when it comes to negotiations and diplomacy."

Durbin called Bush's remarks "unfair and really unfortunate."