Thursday, June 09, 2005
"Folks get down in the sunshine...."
"Everybody Loves The Sunhsine" (mp3 via tunes.co.uk)
Had to drop these jewels after some discussions I had this week though:
- William D. Rubinstein, the stupidest academic on the planet. (via Pharyngula and Boing Boing)
- H. Allen Orr on "Why Intelligent Design Isn’t" in The New Yorker.
- "Students should just “follow God’s plan for purity.”" - "abstinence-until-marriage" as Sex Ed. in Ohio.
- Bush's "Culture of Life" agenda at work again:
The United States currently gives just 0.16 percent of its national income to help poor countries, despite signing a United Nations declaration three years ago in which rich countries agreed to increase their aid to 0.7 percent by 2015. Since then, Britain, France and Germany have all announced plans for how to get to 0.7 percent; America has not. The piddling amount Mr. Bush announced yesterday is not even 0.007 percent.
What is 0.7 percent of the American economy? About $80 billion. That is about the amount the Senate just approved for additional military spending, mostly in Iraq. It's not remotely close to the $140 billion corporate tax cut last year.
From "Crumbs for Africa" and BTW this was money already designated for African foreign aid by Congress, not new money approved based on Tony Blair's recent lobbying in advance of the upcoming G8 Summit. So much for his "special friendship" with the US and sticking his neck out on behalf of Bush for this ridiculous Iraq war. (The New York Times)
I have plenty of other links I want to throw up but Young Catch has the right idea so content might be sporadic if this weather holds up.
And rock to this Damian Marley heater "Welcome to Jamrock" that's been blowing up while you heed his words. I only got up on who did this record and the fact that it was actually a new song this past weekend while at a BBQ in New Jeruze. Why does this happen to me with every reggae record that ends up crossing over to mainstream hip hop radio and clubs from "Gimme the Light" and "Who Am I?" to "Tekk" and"Can't Satisfay Her"? I hear these joints forever and assume they're old tracks that I somehow missed and then they hit crticial mass and explode and I realize they're actually new records that have finally broken.
With hip hop I can pinpoint within a week or so when new records hit the streets via mixshows and mixtapes when I'm really focused (and that's even after having given up buying mixtapes regularly) but I am routinely off the mark as far as reggae and and dancehall goes. Props to the Jr. Gong either way though because this record's that crack that I heard also did the business at Summer Jam.
