DudeAsInCool

Pink Floyd pupils sue for royalties By Nigel Rosser, Evening Standard 26 November 2004 A group of former pupils at a London comprehensive school are poised to win thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties for singing on Pink Floyd's classic Another Brick In The Wall 25 years ago. The pupils from the 1979 fourthform music class at Islington Green School secretly recorded vocals after their teacher was approached by the band's management. Now the 23 ex-pupils are suing for overdue session musician royalties, taking advantage of the Copyright Act 1997 to claim a percentage of the money from broadcasts. http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/...ning%20Standard

That's ok, we dont need electricity - we run off of star power

Scrooge's nightmare Despite Bush's election, the cranky old conservatives' days are numbered. The future belongs to middle-aged boomers and their kids, who embrace the tolerant values of the '60s. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Leonard Steinhorn Nov. 25, 2004 | Cowed by exit polls showing that "moral values" motivated one in five American voters on Election Day, chastened journalists have begun to spin a new narrative about our national political culture: that "ordinary Americans" can be found only in socially conservative red-state pews. "Ordinary people, the people in the red states" is how conservative media critic Bernard Goldberg puts it, and many in the press seem to be saying amen. But once again the media have it wrong. Missing in this discussion is that most Americans -- even many Bush supporters -- would recoil and rebel if the evangelical right ever got its way and began to limit the personal freedoms most of us now take for granted. All the claims about mandates and values notwithstanding, the very fact that one-fifth of voters cited moral values means that four-fifths didn't. In fact, we heard much the same talk about the rise of conservative social values in the Reagan '80s, yet scholars who have studied attitudes in that period have found little evidence to suggest any reversal of the social liberalism that began in the '60s, particularly on issues involving family, women, morality, sexuality and overall tolerance. We must be careful not to confuse election results with cultural trends. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/...rity/index.html

Im there :bigsmile: But never on Sundays - kneeling screws up my nylons

Only groping will let us know for sure

What ever happened to the privacy between a man and his plastic cup?

I dont buy your assessment either. It's a mess over there...

http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/HotG...1626205,00.html

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1124041declar1.html

:rotfl:

Welcome to Beatking, AllMighty, and thanx for the post and the heads up :good job:

Me first

Just to be safe, don't forget to get this (particularly if you are eating coca-cola basted turkeys: http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-11-24/1011159.html

I'd go there

I was thinking the same thing...

Mine are Kevlar treated for any conservative backsidelash

At this exact moment it's up in the air - but Im expecting to be invited to an annual feast and pig out like everyone else :bigsmile: Also, I plan to check out the movie Sideways

Exactly - he can kiss my backside :read this:

Happy Thanxgiving, all! What are everyone's plans?

No more incessant bill collectors - pretty babes take care of that problem right before your eyes. Smashing!

Redneck - pass me 100 rounds please

I dont buy those statistics. This country may have religous nuts, but they are not the majority.

Americans Show Clear Concerns on Bush Agenda By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER Published: November 23, 2004 fter enduring a brutally fought election campaign, Americans are optimistic about the next four years underPresident Bush, but have reservations about central elements of the second-term agenda he presented in defeating Senator John Kerry, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. At a time when the White House has portrayed Mr. Bush's 3.5-million-vote victory as a mandate, the poll found that Americans are at best ambivalent about Mr. Bush's plans to reshape Social Security, rewrite the tax code, cut taxes and appoint conservative judges to the bench. There is continuing disapproval of Mr. Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, with a plurality now saying it was a mistake to invade in the first place. While Democrats, not surprisingly, were the staunchest opponents of many elements of Mr. Bush's second-term agenda, the concerns extended across party lines in some cases. Nearly two-thirds of all respondents - including 51 percent of Republicans - said it was more important to reduce deficits than to cut taxes, a central element of Mr. Bush's economic agenda. The poll also found pervasive concern about what Americans view as the corrosive effect Hollywood and popular culture have on the nation's values and moral standards. Seventy percent said they were very or somewhat concerned that television, movies and popular music were lowering moral standards in this country. While this sentiment was voiced by supporters of Mr. Bush and of Mr. Kerry, it appears that the concern about a decline in values is becoming another point of polarization in American politics. Mr. Bush's supporters were more likely to cite it than were Mr. Kerry's voters, and it was an issue that had particular resonance in the South and among weekly churchgoers, rural voters and women. The poll found that 55 percent of Mr. Kerry's supporters said that Mr. Bush's supporters did not share their views and morals; 54 percent of Mr. Bush's voters said the same thing of those who voted for Mr. Kerry. In addition, 70 percent of Mr. Kerry's supporters said they were more worried about candidates who "are too close to religion and religious leaders" than about political leaders who "don't pay enough attention" to religion, after a campaign in which Mr. Bush repeatedly spoke of God and his faith. By contrast, 52 percent of Mr. Bush's supporters said they were more worried about public officials who "don't pay enough attention to religion and religious leaders." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/national...artner=homepage

Over my dead body... :read this:

Gene link to laziness 23nov04 EVER wondered why lounging in front of the television is more tempting than going for a jog? Perhaps you have the couch potato gene. Scientists have discovered a new gene which confirms what many of us have long expected - some people just aren't wired for exercise. http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/comm...676^421,00.html **** This explains a lot of things