Jack & Jill Politics

Trying to be inclusive:

Don't
Michael Steele launched a new GOP website aimed at attracting more minorities. On a conference call announcing the launch, he gets asked by a hispanic republican how is it that they don't have content in Spanish like the WH does.

Do
President Obama hosts a latin night(announced in Spanish & English on the WH site) at the WH with food and the entertainment streamed on the WH site, linked with facebook and taped for PBS. Sotomayor was there along with other prominent hispanics in his admin.

Check out President Obama dancing at the event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dyvou-6hHY

HEEEEY caribgirl! ***BIG HUG*** :>)

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AM!! Couldn't get 2 my "OXYGEN MASK" fast enuff!! :>) :>)

Ima B O.K. :>) :>)

swoon

GQ Magazine profiles 50 Most Powerful Folks in DC...Rahm Emanuel tops list

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/200911...

*BREAKING NEWS*

Robert Wexler resigning Congressional Seat to take MiddleEast policy position.

Oct 12 2009, 12:35 pm by Mike Konczal
Student Loans are the New Indentured Servitude

The Wall Street Journal ran a post over the weekend about a new credit crunch among low income borrowers, noting it is now 'payback time.' What they didn't go into is that their primary interviewee is drowning not on expensive cars loans but student loans. This former student's debt is far from extraordinary. It is, in fact, tragically ordinary, as student loans have become the 21st century version of indentured servitude.

From The Wall Street Journal, The 'Democratization of Credit' Is Over -- Now It's Payback Time. Check out the lead:

NEW YORK -- Karen King owes nearly $36,000, more than she's ever earned in a year.

All day long, bill collectors call. She hunts for a second job, sometimes skips meals, and stays with other family members at a grandfather's crowded apartment, trying to get out of debt and turn her life around.

She largely holds herself at fault. "Years ago, I lived for now. It was so stupid," the 28-year-old says. "It's depressing, but I can't live that life anymore." Now, she says, "I basically want to live for the future."

Now go about halfway through.

Her biggest chunk of debt, $26,000, stems from student loans to pay for her two-year associate's degree from a community college -- loans now in the hands of collectors. The remaining $10,000 or so includes old credit-card balances, debt to a store that rents furniture, utility bills and back taxes. Another obligation is $400 a month she contributes to the rent on her grandfather's two-bedroom apartment, where her mother, uncle and sister also live.

Rolfe Winkler caught this too. In addition to pointing out how the current recession is focused in large part on men, it's also worthwhile to note that the current recession is devastating the young. Here's BusinessWeek on "The Lost Generation."

But let's go back to the person in question here: How should we judge this young person profiled in the Wall Street Journal? Is going into a large debt load to pay for college the post-Risk-Shift American Dream? Or is it a form of Living For Now, and being irresponsible and short-sited? According to FinAid.org, the average cumulative debt among graduating seniors is about $22,500. She's ahead of that ($26K/2 years), but what is an acceptable amount of debt to carry to educate yourself? As as Krugman notes, education is a key to our country's successes. Why should we think of her as irresponsible, instead of someone rationally going into debt peonage, like a 17th century indentured servant, in order to take a small shot at bettering oneself - the new middle class dream?

The New Indentured Servitude

Jeffrey Williams, in Dissent Magazine, wrote Student Debt and The Spirit of Indenture, provocatively referred to student loans as the new form of indentured servitude.

Why is this the new form of indentured servitude? Williams gives some reasons: The prevalence of this debt, especially among the young and the poor/working classes, the transformation from a rounding error amount to a significant burden amount over the past 30 years, the length of term, the idea of mobility and "transport" to a job, debt secured not by property but by personhood, and limited legal recourse. All these characteristics are similar. The limited legal recourse is noteworthy here, since unlike most debt, it isn't dischargeable under bankruptcy, thus it doesn't have a natural protection for the consumer receiving credit (a protection, the original synthetic put option, that our Founders were aware of enough to make sure it was provisioned for in the Constitution).

This is not to soft-peddle indentured servitude. Indentured servitude was a violent contract, with physical torture used to coerce labor. As economist DW Galenson noted, "The Company clearly felt that [beaten workers running away] threatened the continued survival of their enterprise, for they reacted forcefully to this crime. In 1612, the colony's governor dealt firmly with some recaptured laborers: 'Some he apointed to be hanged. Some burned. Some to be broken upon wheles, others to be staked and some to be shott to death.'" But let's put on our Galenson Economic Historian googles and think of it as an economic efficiency problem. Indentured servitude, like student loans, are a form of consumption smoothing. And one thing that is needed for consumptions smoothing is good information about the future.

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/10/student...

New?

This has been going on since before I was in college.

She spent $26,000 in two years at community college? On what?

I was just going to ask that. She could have gone to 4 years at a state school for less $26,000.

CSU is about $4,300 per year or $17,200 for 4 years. An associate degree in CA is about $13,000.

I think she is a bad example.

Okay, the ending was kinda anti-climatic, but still was a good one.

I'm off to sleep and download some Public Enemy

Apocalyspse 91 the Enemy Strikes Black

LOST AT BIRTH ..........best PE song Ever

Hazy shade of Criminal 2nd best song
nite

kid rock is not LL ...his body is pathetic

Soooooooo true! Not only that, but he couldn't pick up the rhythm for nothing.

Also didn't Foxy Brown look a hot mess?

I didn't know they let her out of jail. I find it kinda funny that I was like, "Damn, they're out of jail now???" for every other act that performed.

LOL

she was in jail???????? wow

I luv hip hop, grew up on hip hop but damn some of us just didn't survive hip hop....look at flavor flav.......I did like his viking hat

I don't know how VH1 does it but they have managed to engross me in the story of people I really don't normally like. Right now it's Behind the Music: Lil Wayne.

And, of course, I going to watch Behind the Music: 50 Cent.

They really have the formula of making the most questionable people look sympathetic down.

I watched the Lil Wayne one, Pink and Bobby Brown.

Wayne got me with the story about the cop who saved him when he shot himself, and he's still rolling with Lil Wayne!

I just love Pink and think she's underrated as an artist.

Bobby just took me back to my childhood, then ruined it when he talked about NE smoking weed in hotels and sex with the groupies. To quote Chris Rock "I didn't know til you told me!"

Wayne got me with the story about the cop who saved him when he shot himself, and he's still rolling with Lil Wayne!

Thank you! I was wondering who the older white guy was in that picture of his father figures and other family.

Pink is one of my absolute favorites. I haven't scene her Behind the Music. I'll have to find it because I love her.

VH1 is like the Lifetime of music televison.

Lifetime pulls you in with a story about some woman (usually white) who has to go on food stamps cause her husband left her for his secretary and she didn't learn no skills and she gotta swallow her pride and take that gov'mt assisstance.

VH1 pulls me in with the pop culture shows: I Love the 60/70/80/90, I Love Toys, etc, and there 100 Greatest...Hip Hop/Dance/Soul/Rock/Pop/One Hit Wonders....etc, and there Fabulous Life of...series.

DMX out of jail? poor guy

I was just thinking "wasn't DMX in jail? He sound awright though. Like I said "Party Up" has one of the most memorable tag lines...

OMG!!! DMX.

That Bamma is crazy, but I still listen to "Party Up".

"Ya'll gone make me lose my mind...up in here..."

Back in the day the overweight luvers in the house were cute...Rick Ross?????
you go boy!!!!!! keep on hustlin

Unarmed 15-year-old African American killed by police in broad daylight in Champaign, IL.
by eco
Share this on Twitter - Unarmed 15-year-old African American killed by police in broad daylight in Champaign, IL. Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 05:42:59 PM PDT
I write in sorrow from a community in shock. On Friday afternoon in Champaign IL, Kiwane Carrington, an unarmed 15-year-old African American was shot to death in an incident with police. The police had been called to a suspected break-in. Media reports state that the policeman's gun "went off" during a scuffle after Kiwane and his friend disobeyed police orders. Kiwane was known to the house owner and was welcome there. The incidents leading up to the gun being fired are unclear, and family, friends and community members are demanding answers.

eco's diary :: :: The local newspaper, the News Gazette, has more background on Kiwane Carrington and Debra Thomas, the owner of the house where Kiwane was shot, and is also reporting now that the police officer who fired the shot has been named. On Monday (10/12) a press conference was held involving relatives of Kiwane, the owner of the house where the shooting took place, and a community activist.

For those who are unaware, Champaign-Urbana is the location of the flagship campus of the University of Illinois. While the campus community is highly diverse, with all ethnicities well represented and a huge international student body, it would be incorrect to presume that the campus community is well integrated. Racial tensions on campus have become particularly apparent in the last couple of years, with Greek houses gaining notoriety for hosting parties such as "Mexican night" where girls dressed up not in sombreros but as pregnant cleaners. The school mascot, Chief Illiniwek, was recently banned from appearing at NCAA events, and a post-Chief art installation has repeatedly been vandalized.

It is a little unfair to equate the university exactly with Champaign-Urbana. Campus functions somewhat as a separate town, and has its own police force. Students are obviously temporary residents here, and bring with them the culture and suppositions from their own home towns and countries. However, the life of the whole community is wrapped up with the fate of the University, as a large number of local residents are employed by the U of I. For example, on game day it seems like both towns as well as the university shut down to focus on the game. In addition, a large proportion of students are Illinois residents, with many coming from the Chicago metropolitan area.

So it comes a little surprise that the tensions felt on campus are mirrored in the community at large. If anything, Champaign and Urbana are even more susceptible to racial divisions than campus itself. Residential areas are all but segregated, being stopped for "driving while black" is not uncommon, and relations between the black community and police in the Champaign-Urbana area are not good. However this latest incident has shocked many, particularly as Kiwane was unarmed and it occurred in the middle of the day. The community as a whole is asking itself how to move forward, and how to repair relations between a black community and a police force that seem all but destroyed.

Prayers and good thoughts for a grieving family...and hope for a more just future.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/13/79....

again?

And again and again.

My birth mother said something that struck me when she visited last week. She tends to use biblical metaphors to describe current issues and in so doing often overreaches, but sometimes provokes deep thought. She lives in Georgia and said that as far as she was concerned young Black men are/will be killed with impunity as though someone had ordered the killing of every firstborn son of the Jews. As though the killers want to ensure there will never be another Black president.

That was too deep for words.

dj this is heartbreaking

Sorry,

but evr'y time I see Rick Ross, I wanna say cut that damn beard!!!

That's how I feel about Rick Rubin.

Okay,

I'll admit. My name is lamh32, and I actually love Ja Rule and Ashanti together. They need to get together and do a whole new album. I love "Always on Time"

And I see Ashanti has taken advantage of that broadway singing coach for her new role in "The Wiz"

May 2 fav LL Cool J Songs: I'm Bad and I Need Love

I still rememer LL in his red Kagol and red track suit (shirtless, cause even then he was ripped).
"AWWWWWWWWWWWW...nobody can rap quite like I can. I'll take a muscle-bound mand and put his face in the sand...I'm notorious I'll crush you like a jelly bean...I'm Bad"

LL Cool J was the first poster I ever had on my bedroom wall. I used to dream with my teenage heart that he was singing "I Need Love" directly to me.

"When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call. Telling me I need a girl who's as sweet as a dove. For the first time in my life I see I need love..."

My favorite line: I'll crush you like a jelly bean!"

momma said knock u out!!!!

Onyx relax please please please

They could use a valium or ambien don't they.

But gotta cut 'em some slack, when was the last time they got ths much airtime?

lol

Moesha's boyfriend up there performing!!!!!

girl (or boy) I was trying to remember his name, but Moesha's (Mo to da E to da...) BF will do.

that's messed up when that's why we remember people. Ha Ha

or Brandy's little brother

I watched too much TV and listened to too much rap music. I wonder how I learned anything.

I've said it once, and I'm gonna say it again. MARY J LOOKS FAB--U--LOUS!!
And she sounds great

This was my song!!!!
Mary J and Method Man

I so dont find Tracey Morgan funny!

Anyway, Method Man, RedMan, and Mary J Blige.

Man, Mary J and Method Man "You're all I need..." FIRE!!!1

Brings me back...I definitely need to cop that for my IPOD

Mary J's hair is flawless.........I need to put that on my Ipod!!!!!

ok whats the deal with Rick Rubin???????

To this day, I still remember Redman on MTV Cribs where he was till living in his momma's house I think.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6igot_mtv-cri...

BTW, I apologize in advance for the butt pics in the beginining. the only video I could find, was posted by "Phat Azz" cribs.

Ah...why is Fred Hammond selling rims?

Now Warren G & Trey Songz "Regulate"

Man, I was so in love with Warren G. he's still pretty cute.

and who can forget Nate Dogg

I'm watching the show now and would love for Warren G to officially retire "Regulate" and Falva Flav to just retire tonight. Go out on top-ish guys. Or at least before the transition fully goes from nostalgic to sad.

I love Warren G but he is milking Regulate for all it's worth. I saw him in concert a few years ago and he was singing it like it was new. It's been like 15 years! Time for a new hit.

he gotta make some money but isn't he a relative of Dr Dre? Why does he have to live off the old hit

He is Dre's step brother. Don't know how much that gets you.

was warren g part of def jam? I thought he was with death row?

is death row a subsidiary of Def Jam? Kinda like Island Def Jam with Gotti and ja Rule. Ludicris has DTP but still is part of Def Jam South.

U know what "what the hell was Nate Dogg doing - rapping or singing or rap-sing"

Ah duh...srapinging???

So since Jam Master J was killed Run and DMC don't perform Run-DMC cuts anymore.

But still it seems like the original artist aren't performing their own songs anyway, so I wonder who's gonna perform Run-DMC's stuff.

Cause a Def Jam tribute without RUN DMC, just ain't a real Def Jam tribute

Now it's time for the Beasties by KRS-One and that black kid from Gym Class heroes.

Gotta admit, other than "Right to Party", I'm no fan of the Beasties. Still I know lots of people (majority of the ones I know are white) who LOVES!!! the Beasties

wonder if GQ has something against Robert Gibbs...the president's top communications guy didn't make the list.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/200911...

Saw a preview of this movie when I saw Tyler Perry's movie last week. I love me some Hong Kong type action flicks. This one looks like a winner.

Ninja Assassin

The bit I saw at the movies said that they (mostly) did all their own stunts...HELL YEAH!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/3329923...
Shd we keep classic books in the sch curriculum even though it has offensive language in it?

can't help myself...but it is so true

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/...

"Liz Cheney Is the New Dick

Who’s the most venomous and pernicious person in American life today? That person who, without an iota of irony or self-dramatizing exaggeration (Rush Limbaugh, in that sense, is rather a kitten), really believes the nation has descended into a malignant state and can only be saved by baneful and constant censure?

Nominations?

Here’s mine: Liz Cheney."

Right now on PBS Frontline is talking about Obamas war in Afganistan.The money quote from a afgani farmer "You have guns tanks and planes and cant win.We have nothing what do you expect us to do"

from that standpoint, the man makes sense

Now Def Jam South's representin: Ludacris & ScarFace.

I gotta tell you, I listened to Ludacris "Move...Get Out The Way" and I was throwing bows in my car on the way to work.

Also, Ghetto Boyz "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" is still one of my fav hip hop tracks evah.

I was throwing bows in my car on the way to work.


ROFLMAO

girl i was.

I was all "move..bitch..get out the way" all the way to work.

You'da thought I was having a seizure.

"Mind Playing Tricks on Me" is one of my all time faves as well.

Ludacirs "Drop Bows on em"

Ludacris----- Stand up!!!!!!!

Eminem & the Roots did LL Cool J "Rock The Bells"

Public Enemy on now.

I missed Chuck D!!!!!!

Don't laugh but I am loving it... I feel so good, just rocking out

Lord I miss the simple days

I'm loving it too. I wasn't planning on watching it at all, but I'm loving the vignettes too.

posted in the wrong spot

HIP HOP Honors: Def Jam on VH1 now.

who have I missed?

Dang, I got all excited but I'm on the west coast so I have to wait. Behind the Music: T.I. is on now and damn if I'm not getting sucked in.

Wow T.I. was wayyyy more of a gansta then I thought. Why does one need an arsenal of weapons? That"s crazy.

i'm curious about this at jjp, why do some posters have a "like.report" and some only have "report?" why?

the ' like' doesn't show up on YOUR OWN REPLIES. it should show up on everyone else's replies.

This photo is a reminder that the office of the presidency is respected. President Obama being saluted as Air Force One takes off.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3964718...

I know that's Air Force protocol (their protocol manual is called "'Til Wheels Are Up"). I think it extends to all the services, but they're the only ones that have it explicitly written.

thanks

Guess I'm into pictures tonight. I just love love this picture. Would love to know what this young lad is thinking as he listens to President Obama. To me it seems he is looking at possibilities. It gives me goosebumps.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3993797...

I can picture him 15 years from now completing his young executive program or his summer clerkship on his way to doing great things.

ditto

that was a good one

He's probably thinking the President is a punk and sell-out if he has any access to the lazy crap you write.

and I love one of the posters who caught the fact he has Obama's ears, so cute.

our president...would love to be a fly on the wall...look at the serious expressions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3995929...

this actually makes me laugh...reminds me of middle school antics/behavior.

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20091012/...

"The last month has seen an explosion of celebrity Twitter fights: Demi Moore traded insults with blogger Perez Hilton, singer Chris Brown took a swipe at talk show host Wendy Williams, reality show star Spencer Pratt went after Ryan Seacrest. Kanye West was bombarded with angry postings from fellow entertainers such as Pink after he interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.

In rushing to rumble on Twitter, stars are bypassing publicists long entrusted with shaping their images and offering a peek at the unadulterated personalities behind their public facades. The blunt postings alarm public relations professionals, who traditionally have exerted stringent control over what clients dole out to their fans.

"Giving some celebrities Twitter is like giving a kid a loaded gun," said Allan Mayer, head of the strategic communications division at the publicity firm 42West. "Twitter can be enormously valuable as a branding tool. But like everything else, it's a double-edged sword, and if you have impulse control problems – which strangely a lot of celebrities seem to have – it can be very dangerous."

Beck sets up special hotline for White House to whine about Fox News Like Beck says, quit whining and call the hotline ... he will put you on the air, and discuss the issue with you (if you so choooooose).

If anyone at Fox News has 2 brain cells to rub together, they'd keep their mouths shut about this. Becky Boy ain't doing them any favors. Need me to explain why?

*yawn*

(literally, when I read this I yawned)

he's copy catting Sean Hannity.. Sean has a line so you can call up and say whatever to him should you choose to waste your valuable time...just a gimmick.

I just found out Beverly Jenkins has a new book out!!! I am sooooooooooooooooooooo geeked about it, I have to go to the bookstore before the week is out!

It is EXCELLENT!

Paid full price for it, with great pleasure because anything from B. Jenkins is worth the wait and price, but last weekend I saw copies in Wal-Mart for almost $2 less than I paid :-)

Awesome! I have a Wal-Mart near my house, I will be going there tomorrow. I'm willing to pay full price if I have to, but if I don't have to, I don't mind a discount (I wouldn't have paid full price at B&N either since I have a membership card ~loL~)

The pirate book? I have it and am going to start on it soon.

name, please.

Captured

http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail...

thanks

I hate you right now! LOL

Hate me some more, I got it two weeks ago :-)

have ya'll heard Usher's new song "Papers". I think I already know what some of the usual suspects will say, but let's put aside the subject matter, and I just gotta say that the rhythm and chorus is catchy as hell. I can't get that "I damn near lost my momma..." line outta my head.

What do ya'll think?

And yes, I know that Tameka told TMZ that Usher hasn't signed the papers yet, but let's be honest, that doesn't mean he doesn't want to, but don't they still have money/custody to settle before signing the "papers".

It's kind of like "Confessions" part 3 or 4. I like it. But, I like all of Ushers "to much information" songs.

True dat.

Though I gotta admit, that "move mountains" song on the last album. it was basically just him "whining", and if I want premo whining, then I'm gonna listen to Keith Sweat, not Usher.

An endorsement for McDonnell, and not necessarily on issues:

For those, perhaps a majority of Northern Virginians, who plan to vote for Deeds, we ask the question: What, besides the (D) next to his name, has he done this campaign season to engender enthusiasm or support? How will someone who has overseen such a debacle of a campaign manage to run the state government?

The reason Virginia is a business friendly state in the first place is because of DEMOCRATIC governors. The last 2 Republican governors wrecked the state financially and morally and I expect McDonnell to further wreck the state when he gets in there.

No doubt about it, Deeds ran a terrible campaign. But I call "boo" on the Democratic "leaders" who are raining down on Deeds. The ONLY state Dem. official I see trying to help Deeds out is Mark Warner. Everyone else washed their hands of Deeds the day he won the primary.

I also have questions about why we haven't seen any of Deeds' wife or kids. If Deeds' wife doesn't like the spotlight and doesn't want her or the kids in any of the campaign literature/ads, then it's best Deeds loses and stays in Bath County with their one stop light. If Deeds wins, his wife will be the First Lady of VA and will be expected to perform hosting duties. The First Lady gig isn't all that in the spotlight...I betcha nobody here could pick out Mark Warner's wife out of a lineup.

Something else that I see brewing are the white liberals gearing up to blame BLACK PEOPLE for Deeds' eventual loss. They're already on their little blogs and articles and postings saying that black people won't vote for Deeds because he's a white man from the sticks. I don't like that, and when* Deeds' loses, within 24 hours that's going to be the meme of the day. It's not black people who don't want to vote for the white man from the sticks, it's WHITE LIBERALS who don't want to vote for the white man from the sticks (which is also why Jerry Kilgore lost --he was from Western VA as well).

None of this means that McDonnell is great for VA. He's not and most Virginians know he's not. The fact that Deeds has run SUCH a bad campaign and McDonnell consistently can't get above 52% of the polling with a consistent 12-14% undecided means he ain't all that great as a candidate himself. The fact that people are BEGGING Deeds to give them a reason to vote for him and not for McDonnell shows me that no matter who actually wins on Election, VIRGINIA will be the loser for the next 4 years.

Deeds' sorry ass campaign also doesn't mean that McAuliffe or Moran would have been better. McAuliffe would have been kicking McDonnell's ass from the Chesapeake to Big Stone Gap but he has such HIGH negatives and never held an elective office before. Moran refused to step outside of Northern Virginia.

I fully expect Bob McDonnell to further wreck the state's finances, to have his buddies introduce social legislation that further get into people's personal business like Jim Gilmore did with the Hugh Flynn case.

The black people like Wilder and S. Johnson are only off the Deeds bandwagon/on the McDonnell bandwagon because either Deeds wouldn't kiss their asses or wouldn't promise them access.

*Creigh Deeds only lost to Bob McDonnell 4 years ago by 325 votes out of 1.5 million cast, and nobody knew who the hell Creigh Deeds was even though McDonnell had a better campaign. Hell, he could pull a Doug Wilder and win by the slimmest of slim margins.

i keep on asking..

what the hell kind of candidate can't take out a REPUBLICAN with that thesis of his...

it was a GIFT

and Deeds seems to be a punk ass bitch of a candidate.

In Virginia? It's really not that big a deal, unless you're in NOVA. The WaPo poll (or one of the recent ones) had 51% of Virginians polled saying that McDonnell was "about right" ideologically.

It would've been a good attack line now, heading into the final stretch. But it's worn out its welcome.

Here's what I think (meaning the campaign hat's off):

The reason Virginia is a business friendly state in the first place is because of DEMOCRATIC governors. The last 2 Republican governors wrecked the state financially...

...well, when the focus of your campaign is a 20 year old thesis, little stuff like that gets missed.

Deeds' son made a little news over the summer.

I'm gonna be honest with you, Town (and take this as you will, considering my affiliations), but Deeds hasn't done much to try to win the black vote. Every event we've been to, I've overheard that he was invited after McDonnell asked to come. And his absence at some events where we went was a source of complaint. Again, take that as you will.

I would've learned more fighting it out with Moran or McAuliffe that I have watching Deeds all but destroy himself.

a comment from Ta-Nehisi Coates on Limbaugh and the NFL

Buh-bye Big Pharma.

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

I'm mad I didn't come up with that nickname.

I posted that ealier today. When I lived in MA I was on a golf team through work and we used to play there. It would have been very easy for this to be done at night. That hole or even the whole course itself isn't seen by any road with major traffic. It is located in very small quiet suburb.

The Latin Music concert at the White House is streaming.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

Thanks!!

The stream seems to go in and out.