Jack & Jill Politics

As many of Musicals lovers I LOVE the Phantom of the Opera! It is my favourite ever... Last year I’ve been in NY & I tried to get my ticket …guess what everything was sold out that show how great the show is. Anyhow I end up getting it from a site through Casatickets.com. Next week I’m going to visit my sister and I just got some pretty good tix from the same place
http://www.casatickets.com/phantom-of-the-opera...
So I'll be analyzing as well as enjoying the show.

Andrew Lloyd Webber Has Cancer

Posted Sunday 25 October 09:50 AM

Musical master Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but luckily it was caught "in its very early stages," a spokesman disclosed in a statement.

"Andrew is now undergoing treatment and expects to be fully back at work before the end of the year," it said.

Lloyd Webber, 61, is currently working on a sequel for 'Phantom of the Opera' called 'Lover Never Dies.' It is expected to make its Broadway debut next November. He is also set to judge a BBC talent show next year.

The famed composer's other musicals include 'Evita,' 'Cats,' 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Starlight Express.'

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Phantom is my favorite musical. I listened to it 2x/day everyday for 6 months when I first got it. I saw it in NYC, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago and D.C.

I wish Lord Webber a strong recovery.

ok, my bedtime is here...

ran 15 miles today .......60 yrs old, ahem, for you young people who think you can't do something...I gaurantee you will run faster than me, BUT, can you run as long as I can??????

Maybe jjp can start a log of us who can compete in various age groups. This would fit nicely with Michelle's fitness messages.

in awe of you

OMG...thought I saw everything...now NeNe is calling out Lohan's dad...which frankly I think is ok, but......what in the world, I was just cracking up!

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/10/22/20...

what in the world was THAT about?

Nene gone wild?

nene is making the most of her 15 minutes! Kim must be so jealous.

You probably right about that cause NeNe steals the show whereEVER she goes! I just wish she would leave Kandi alone...I like Kandi...she is real nice.
Did anyone else see last week, where they said Kandi and AJ had broke off the engagement right before he was killed.

What do you think caused the break up? Do you think she knew he was banging that GM of the strip club he was outside of when the owner bashed his head in having caught AJ and his spouse ..getting it on?!

I just could never understand how Kandi was with that AJ...what goes on in a woman's mind for her to hook up with a man with FIVE baby mommas? That is sheer luancy...heck one baby momma cause enough drama..and she was going to be dealing with FIVE of 'em. I was praying she would listen to her mom...and I bet her mom prayed for God to intervene....and save her child...and the lord did!

never thought of it that way....hilarious

It's 10:43pm EST. Does anyone watch madmen? Betty just busted Don and the current side piece is in the car. If you never watched this the episode is available tommorrow on "On Demand". It is the best acting you have seen in years.

wow

can't wait to see it on my tivo

BBC:

Exposing the colour of prejudice

How much does the colour of our skin make us who we are, and shape the way the world sees us?

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Griffin was the white man who fooled hundreds of Americans into believing he was a black man as he travelled through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia - and who felt at first hand the bigotry that meant.

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When he toured the South lecturing to white audiences about his experiences as a black man, he was threatened, intimidated and, on at least one occasion, seriously beaten.

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Yeah, they made a movie based on his experiences called "Black Like Me".

As a Native American who had very little interaction with other people of color until my mid teens, that book had a profound impact on me. It was one of the first books I read that I could identify with as a person of color. Believe me, when I was growing up there were not any personal stories from my heritage that were made available to me and this one stuck.

Hat tip Field Negro
The original Methodist Church that Richard Allen walked out on and Mother Bethel held a joint service today.

didn't know Dionne Warwick is a niece to Whitney Houston's mom (Cissy Houston)

http://www.singersroom.com/music/Whitney-Housto...

I knew they were related in some fashion, but didn't realize they were cousins...I had thought she was Whitney's aunt.

well they have the family genes for singing that is for sure

The audacity of Precious.

I want to see it, but, have to admit I'll have to get my strength up for this one.

Hi ya'll I'm studyin for another test in Biochem Tuesday (it seems like I'm always studying for this darn class)

Hopetully I do well. I'm not as confident for thsi test as the last, but I more confident than I was for the first.

Anyway, as a reward for trying, I'm gonna go see "This Is It". Anyone else excited.


Here's some new footage to wet your appetite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPWpiW1_6XY

sending you prayers for confidence and belief in yourself to see you through. let us know how it went. . . after you see This is It, of course, and celebrate!

study hard and good luck

Look on your refridgerator.
Yes you can.

BTW,

Check out the official website. They have a couple more videos. the Dance Drill video is cool

Madoff Associate Found Dead in Pool

PALM BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 25) – Jeffry Picower, a philanthropist accused of profiting more than $7 billion from the investment schemes of his longtime friend Bernard Madoff, was found at the bottom of the pool at his oceanside mansion and died Sunday, police said. He was 67.
Picower's wife discovered his body and pulled him from the water with help from a housekeeper, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Medical Center at about 1:30 p.m.

http://news.aol.com/article/madoff-associate-je...

I just read The Beach House by James Patterson, and after all of the revelations about the shenanigans at Madoff Securities, this is setting up the perfect novel.

between the Madoff scandal and the people who are committing suicide for their off shore accounts...makes you wonder...It seems some knew they were doing wrong and now when the truth comes out, they can't live with it.

makes ya go "HHHMMM"...

Ths is so infuriating:
"Congress is covered now by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the same plan that covers eight million other federal workers, retirees and their families.

There had been talk earlier in the health care debate of extending the plan — or something like it — to all. In fact, Barack Obama campaigned for president on that approach.

But doing so could push the total cost of an overhaul beyond the limit of $900 billion over 10 years that President Obama has set. MOREOVER, IT WOULD ADD PEOPLE WITH THIGHER HEALTH RISKS TO THE POOL, WHICH WOULD PROBABLY INCREASE PREMIUMS FOR THOSE ALREADY IN THE PLAN." (my caps)

Why is it so hard to understand that the otherside is we pay for these higher irsk peoples healthcare through them receiving their care in the most expensive way possible the emergency room? Why is it so hard to understand that we are going to have higher costs period unless we just kill off the sick? why is it so hard to understand that the cost of the riskier will come down over time as many can be treated earlier because of check ups through less costly procedures than surgery in many cases through drugs? why is it so hard to understand that the profits of the health insures have no business in the equation of healthcare? Why is it so hard to understand that the only real losers will be corporate boards and management of healthcare inusrance companies?

If you understand please tell me why Congress keeps thinking they can get away w/ this.

Update on Myron Rolle at Oxford. From Florida State he passed up the NFL draft to be a Rhodes Scholar.

i've been wondering what was the latest...cool!

The big profits made by some of Wall Street's leading banks are "hidden gifts" from the state, and taxpayer resentment of such companies is "justified", George Soros, the fund manager, said in an interview with the Financial Times.

"Those earnings are not the achievement of risk-takers," Mr Soros said. "These are gifts, hidden gifts, from the government, so I don't think that those monies should be used to pay bonuses. There's a resentment which I think is justified."

Mr Soros, who joins a transatlantic chorus calling for limits on risk, leverage and compensation at big banks, said proprietary traders belong at hedge funds, not at banks, and that the compensation at Wall Street companies should be limited to prevent excessive risk.

"With the too-big-to-fail concept comes a need to regulate the payments that employees receive," said Mr Soros, who will elaborate on his views in lectures in Budapest next week.

Some bankers have argued that limits on pay would make it difficult for them to retain their most talented risk-takers. Mr Soros agreed and said this would be a good thing.

"That would push the risk-takers who are good at taking risks out of Goldman Sachs into hedge funds, where they actually belong, because hedge funds take risks with their own capital, not with deposits and not with government guarantees," he said.

Soros says Wall St's 'hidden gifts' should not be used for bonuses

""That would push the risk-takers who are good at taking risks out of Goldman Sachs into hedge funds, where they actually belong, because hedge funds take risks with their own capital, not with deposits and not with government guarantees," he said."

Soros gets it.

Why controlling bonuses will not reduce risk.
"In an interview last week with The New York Times, Mr. Volcker said the nation’s commercial banks should not be allowed to hold and trade risky securities, a practice that generated deep losses for many of them in the credit crunch. The governor of the Bank of England made the same point last week. Separating these operations was the response the United States government took after the Crash of 1929, but today, the administration says it has no plan to break up the banks again in the manner Mr. Volcker suggests."

Probably, nothing short of shutting down the casino will work.

Edit:

It was hard following author who starts with American public concerns about robbery on Wall Street, he then go into up coming consumer protection bill, start talking about why robber barons need derivatives, then back to American concerns. Nothing in there is straight talk about reduction of risks.

kinda neat actually.....

"White House Hockey: A Less Politicized Game
Street Hockey Pickup Games Land on Pennsylvania Avenue

The rules: No slap shots. No playing the puck if it goes on the sidewalk. No politics."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/white-house-...

Bo Obama has to be one of the happiest dogs ever!

New From AOFBlog: Sunday Dinner Ideas http://bit.ly/4ddRO4

co-sign. But as the owner of two porties, this picture is troublesome. These dogs SHOULD NOT be encouraged to 'counter surf'. Trust me, those long tongues can reach an amazing distance.