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I defer to Koop on this one. For starters, money contributions. I'm concerned as to what communication clamps they impose...e.g. what they consider political fundraising. If a non-affiliated, yet liberal organization, sends a similar message as say the democratic party, will this affect the democrats limits on fundraising? Got any answers on this Koop? By the way, Redneck, Im surprised to see you being supportive of more government interference--I thought you guys wanted less government rotfl

Who said anything about the FCC?

The money is gonna flow one way or the other because the system is inherently corrupt. But when the government gets involved, it's just not about campaign contributions, its about media control.

Love the One Your With - Stephen Stills

From the DrudgeReport.com - developing... GRAMMY RATINGS PLUNGE: VIEWERSHIP DOWN 25% FROM YEAR AGO... MORE... LOWEST IN 8 YEARS... ABC 'DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES' EASILY TOPS MUSIC FEST... CBS GRAMMYS PULL 13.3 RATING/20 SHARE, COLLAPSE FROM 2004 AVERAGE 17.6 RATING/25 SHARE... AWARDS SHOW ACTUALLY FALLS TO 3RD PLACE IN TIME SLOT IN SOME CITIES... MORE...

I used to own this: http://www.wendycarlos.com/+sob.html

Welcome to Beatking, Bernard Max... :scratchin: Nice forum you have--you should post it in our musicians forum.. *** Roll Over Bethoven - The Beatles

Beause it's fast becoming the only place where we can find the truth--not a homogenized version of it that's packaged with Pepsi commericals

Having a Good Time - Samite (Windham Hill Records)

a purrfect valentines gift for the wifey

Kanye West and Alicia Keys Win Grammys By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: February 13, 2005 Filed at 11:30 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The late Ray Charles' duets album ``Genius Loves Company,'' recorded during the final months of his life, led the Grammys with eight wins on Sunday night. The sentimental favorite won record of the year and best pop collaboration for his ballad with Norah Jones, ``Here We Go Again,'' as well as best pop album. Charles won album of the year. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Grammys.html?hp

The Top 15 Valentines Day Breakup Songs of All-time Ah, the ugly side of love. People obviously don't always marry and live happily ever after with the first person they date; so, breaking up, while hard to do, is often inevitable. And while it would be nice to think that everyone reading this will be spending this Valentine's Day with his or her true love, such is unfortunately not the case. Breaking up with someone often inspires a multitude of feelings: anger, hurt, relief and sometimes even gladness (usually on the part of the breaker, not the break-ee). The following list, in our opinion, includes the songs that we feel are best to listen to after a breakup, for they convey all of the emotions that are common following a breakup and, more importantly, can be pretty cathartic. Drown your sorrows and read the list here: http://www.thecurrentonline.com/news/2003/...me-365436.shtml

And...if that wasn't enough to satisfy you, play with these lips http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/lips.php

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/kiss.php

Thank you Kleenr for the referrals http://www.wmuk-newmedia.co.uk/the_streets/themix.asx http://aristarec.com/media/run_dmc/..._the_box_32.asx

Someone fowarded this to me - I cant vouge for the site, but if I was a musican looking for backing, I probably would check it out: Subject: musicians, investors, & music lovers www.artistshare.com I think this is one of the most positive solutions I've seen in a good long while, and hope y'all get good use of it. pass it along if you agree! the link is for ... - musicians who need venture capital minus the industry sharks to cut a c.d. independantly without mortgaging the house or selling their soul to a record label. Their work stands on it's own merit via public response on the internet. - those interested in sponsoring new music through a reworked patron type investment system. Is this Buddhist "right livelihood" approved? I haven't seen the structure for payouts, however. I don't know if this is most likely to be a charitible investment, or a geniune way to make money by producing music independantly? I guess I have to look closer. - anyone who wants free d/l of new tunes, sanctioned by the artists. They use the free d/l's as a form of low cost advertisement, so no worries over legal/ethical issues like napster or morpheus. this particular business approach seems to be saying that the real income, for example "madonna", is not the cd sales, but the market weight of "madonna" as if a trademark. the reasoning appears to follow this path: heavy d/l's= low cost/low risk self promotion= name recognition= a following= income from musical endeavors. - student musicians looking to see how to take the next step of self promotion in the marketplace. I believe it is only available to investors, but this site includes highlights of artists in the creative process, progress reports, technical phases. Sort of like the musicians version of 'inside the actors studio'. Self taught musicians might do well to invest in an artist if nothing else but to gain practical education in the field.

webhead Inside the Internet. The Typo Millionaires The sordid history of the oldest scam on the Internet—and how to kill it off once and for all. By Paul Boutin Posted Friday, Feb. 11, 2005, at 2:54 PM PT There's one Internet scam that's unavoidable, at least if your typing is as bad as mine. For almost as long as the Web has existed, there's been a thriving economy of sites, services, and software vying to grab you as soon as your mistype a URL. When I worked at HotBot a decade ago, part of my job was to handle the angry, confused callers who stumbled into the parallel universes of htobot.com and hotbto.com. At a boom-era party in Silicon Valley, I met a woman who'd goosed her income by developing software that took a list of the most-visited Web sites, calculated the most likely typos that surfers would make trying to reach them, and automatically registered those domains if they were available. She then raked it in by serving ads to the accidental tourists who landed on her sites. Read more here: http://slate.msn.com/id/2113397/

Redneck Wedding! http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_

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Woodward and a slew of journalists look back at Watergate and take a look at today's press: http://slate.msn.com/id/2113327/

Salon's Editor's on the ones that got away: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/02/1...ines/index.html

Couples lock lips at kissing festival Feb. 13, 2005 | MANILA, Philippines -- Thousands of couples got Valentine's Day celebrations going early, locking lips at midnight Saturday in what organizers dubbed "Lovapalooza 2." More than 5,300 couples kissed for at least 10 seconds last Valentine's Day in Manila for an event known as "Lovapalooza," breaking Chile's record of 4,445 in the Guinness World Records book. http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/02/13/kissing/index.html

A Happy Valentine's Day message from Slate for the single folks: http://www.slate.com/id/2113350/

Feb 12, 2005 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Actor and former Friends star Matthew Perry spent 24 hours at a Los Angeles hospital on doctor's orders earlier this week after a bad reaction to prescription medication, People magazine reported on its Web site on Saturday. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=494715

Do Valentines Hinder Love? By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Feb. 11, 2005 — Senders of greeting cards and valentines may actually use the cards to distance themselves from their feelings, reflecting a culture in which relationships, due to social and economic pressures, are "necessarily temporary," according to a new book by an Ohio State University professor. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050207/cupid.html